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Hubbard, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hubbard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56470. It stands on Fishhook River. The Survey maps it on the Menahga quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,414 feet above sea level.

Hubbard within Hubbard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Hubbard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 291 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
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
2 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burning22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard County

Storms near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hubbard in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2008Tornado (EF2)Hubbard1 hurt, $5,000,000This tornado originated in Wadena County, 1 mile east of Menagha, at 914 am CDT. It continued north-northeast where it crossed Hinds Lakes and passed along the east edge of Park Rapids. It lifted about 3 miles northeast of Park Rapids by 934 am CDT. Maximum tornado width was about 450 yards with peak winds of 130 mph. The tornado destroyed one home and hundreds of acres of forest. Several homes and businesses from Hinds Lake to Park Rapids received damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Large trees blown down. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Gusty winds were reported.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Numerous large trees were blown down or uprooted around Duck Lake, some trees blocked roads.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHubbard-A small tree and several limbs were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Several eight to ten inch diameter trees were snapped.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Several trees were blown down and boats and docks were overturned on Duck Lake.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Isolated tree damage was evident across southern Straight River Township. Numerous large branches were broken off with occasional pine or poplar trees snapped or uprooted.
July 2008HailHubbard-The hail lasted for several minutes.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHubbard-Tree damage was reported near Duck Lake.
May 2003HailHubbard-The hail piled up 2 inches deep.
July 2022HailHubbard-no account filed
September 2019HailHubbard-no account filed
May 2018HailHubbard-no account filed
September 2008HailHubbard-no account filed
September 2007HailHubbard-no account filed
July 2003HailHubbard-no account filed
July 2003HailHubbard-no account filed
May 2001HailHubbard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hubbard 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
Horton4.9 miles10
Park Rapids6.4 miles10
Park Estates7.2 miles10
Dorset8.8 miles9
Nevis12.7 miles9
Badoura13.1 miles8
Deer Lane14.1 miles9
Emmaville15.9 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 HubbardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107104191The 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 645265. 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.