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Heinola, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56567. The Survey maps it on the Heinola quadrangle.

Heinola within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

21 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newton Township - 21 words.

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Heinola between 1992 and 2019, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2019Recreation and ceremony12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 1994Natural3.4 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictHEINOLA
15 May 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 1995Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Arson/incendiarism130 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLEAF RIVER FIRE
27 April 1992Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 1998Arson/incendiarism42 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heinola in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 1998Thunderstorm WindHeinola$20,000The wind tore up a trailer home, scattering the contents for a half a mile.
September 2025HailHeinola-Time estimated from radar.
June 2015HailHeinola-The hail covered the ground at the intersection of county roads 52 and 67.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHeinola-A barn was blown over and a large metal bale feeder was tossed across the farmyard.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHeinola-Uprooted trees broke windows and damaged the siding on a house. Two trampolines were thrown into nearby trees.

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
New York Mills4.6 miles9
Leaf City (historical)4.6 miles9
Deer Creek6.4 miles9
Topelius (historical)6.6 miles9
Richdale7.7 miles9
Ottertail8.2 miles13
Bluffton9.3 miles9
West Wind Estates9.3 miles9

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 Q122553510The 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 654752. 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.