Hamel, Minnesota

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.

• 1909 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Hamel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Medina city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Medina City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hamel between 1999 and 2012, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Corcoran
• Ditter
• Maple Grove
• Medina
• Long Lake
• Plymouth

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamel in 16 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 heavy rain, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Hennepin County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644599. 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.

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.