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Holyoke, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Holyoke Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55749. The Survey maps it on the Holyoke quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Holyoke within Carlton 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Holyoke between 1992 and 2019, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance47
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton 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 Holyoke: 2 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
County Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menghini PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holyoke in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHolyoke-A few tree limbs were broken.
June 2018Flash FloodHolyoke-Floodwaters washed out a stone culvert on the BNSF Railway railroad tracks, opening up a 300' long and 60' deep hole in the railroad roadbed. The tracks were suspended over the washout. A new steel culvert was built and the tracks were returned to service at midnight on June 22nd.
August 2011Flash FloodHolyoke-Numerous roads were washed out near Holyoke.
June 2018HailHolyoke-no account filed
June 2012HailHolyoke-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHolyoke-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHolyoke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Pleasant Valley4.9 miles8
Blackhoof6.0 miles8
Duesler7.1 miles9
Frogner7.4 miles8
Scotts Corner9.3 miles8
Wrenshall10.3 miles8
Nemadji11.0 miles7
Alford11.4 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 HolyokeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5887056The 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 645142. 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.