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Hillview, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paddock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56477. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Butler quadrangle.

Hillview 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hillview between 1992 and 2018, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
25 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2006Natural1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Debris and open burning22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2002Debris and open burning57 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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 Hillview: 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
Weniger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillview in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Flash FloodHillview$2,000Heavy rainfall of two to five inches on top of previously saturated soils produced excessive runoff into the Redeye River drainage. Localized flooding occurred near the river through portions of Butler and Paddock townships.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHillview-A few poplar trees were blown over.
July 2022HailHillview-Received a public report of dime to quarter sized hail.
August 2007HailHillview-The large hail damaged vehicles, roofs, gutters, and skylights.
May 2001HailHillview-no account filed
August 2000HailHillview-no account filed

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
Butler5.1 miles9
Davies6.2 miles9
New York Mills12.8 miles9
Topelius (historical)14.0 miles9
Richdale14.4 miles9
West Wind Estates14.6 miles9
Bluffton14.6 miles9
Grand View Heights14.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 645026. 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.