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Hines, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hines Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56647. The Survey maps it on the Tenstrike quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Hines within Beltrami 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Hines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChippewa National ForestHYDROAX FIRE
6 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestRICE POND
30 July 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2003Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National Forest3 CULVERTS FIRE
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hines: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Beighley Bros PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tenstrike PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hines in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 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 1998Thunderstorm WindHines$5,000Power lines were blown down at Hines.
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Hines-Public report into the 911 call center of a brief touchdown northeast of Tenstrike. Time estimated from radar. Due to the rural nature of the area, no damage could be discerned resulting in an EFU rating.
September 2022HailHines-Public reports half-dollar-sized hail, with damage to boat gauges caused by the hail. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2012HailHines-Most of the hail was quarter to half dollar size.
August 2012HailHines-no account filed
July 2001HailHines-no account filed
July 2001HailHines-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Tenstrike3.0 miles9
Blackduck5.5 miles9
Langor6.9 miles9
Turtle River9.3 miles11
Inez12.3 miles9
Funkley12.6 miles10
Nebish12.8 miles8
Andrusia13.9 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.

Wikipedia article on HinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5767010The 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 656594. 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.