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Gutches Grove, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reynolds Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56347. The Survey maps it on the Round Prairie quadrangle.

Gutches Grove within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Gutches Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 329 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use31 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gutches Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gutches Grove in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014HailGutches Grove-A large swath of quarter size hail was observed south of Long Prairie between Highway 27 and 287.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Gutches Grove-A storm chaser filmed a funnel cloud that looked like it may have been on the ground, though trees shrouded the view. A subsequent NWS damage survey did indeed find nearly two dozen trees that were downed in a convergent pattern from the storm. No structures were hit.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGutches Grove-Several large trees were blown down east of Lake Osakis.
July 2010HailGutches Grove-Many crops were damaged, with corn shredded.
July 2010HailGutches Grove-Several reports of large hail, up to the size of half dollars, were observed from west of Long Prairie, to east of Long Prairie, Minnesota.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGutches Grove-Large branches down on east side of Lake Osakis. Estimated windspeed.
June 2020HailGutches Grove-no account filed
June 2016HailGutches Grove-no account filed
August 2015HailGutches Grove-no account filed
August 2015HailGutches Grove-no account filed
May 2011HailGutches Grove-no account filed
July 2010HailGutches Grove-no account filed
June 2003HailGutches Grove-no account filed
July 2002HailGutches Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Round Prairie4.8 miles8
Long Prairie5.4 miles9
Little Sauk6.0 miles8
Clotho6.8 miles9
Browerville11.0 miles9
West Union11.9 miles8
Clarissa12.9 miles9
Spaulding12.9 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122556911The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644544. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.