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Hawick, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roseville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56273. The Survey maps it on the Hawick quadrangle.

Hawick within Kandiyohi 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hawick between 2000 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 May 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2020Arson/incendiarism130 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2000Smoking5.0 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictBURBANK
11 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use264 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictREGAL MEADOW
11 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictREGAL MEADOW DEUCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kandiyohi County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hawick: 3 producers. 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
Central Allied Enterprises IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goodall Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hegstrom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kandiyohi County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawick in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindHawick$30,000A large machine shed had part of its roof torn off, and a few nearby trees were also broken.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHawick-Part of a roof was blown off a large machine shed. Several trees in the area were broken or uprooted.
July 2016Funnel CloudHawick-A funnel cloud was reported at the intersection of Highway 4 and 55, just northwest of Paynesville.
August 2015Tornado (EF0)Hawick-A tornado touched down and grazed the southern edge of the community of Hawick. It ripped up and tossed a few trees and partially removed metal from the roofs of storage sheds or other outbuildings. It was filmed by multiple storm chasers.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHawick-A large tree blew down along Highway 23, near Hawick, Minnesota.
August 2024HailHawick-no account filed
August 2010HailHawick-no account filed
September 2005HailHawick-no account filed
May 2004HailHawick-no account filed
June 2002HailHawick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kandiyohi 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
Regal4.2 miles8
New London7.0 miles8
Spicer9.9 miles10
Atwater14.6 miles10
Kandiyohi15.9 miles10
Norway Lake16.9 miles8
Willmar19.3 miles10
Parkwood Estates20.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644735. 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.