BlockHixon, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lowell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56716. The Survey maps it on the Crookston SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Crookston SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hixon in 2012, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hixon in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hixon | - | The wind gust was measured at the Crookston airport. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Hixon | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail and brief heavy rain occurred across east central Fisher and west central Lowell townships. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Noyes Junction | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Anglim | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Freeman | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Crookston | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Shirley | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Crookston Junction | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Carman Terrace | 5.2 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654757. 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.