Hull, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Lavell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55746. The Survey maps it on the Upstead Lake quadrangle.

Hull within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Upstead Lake quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hull between 2001 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 June 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2019	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 October 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Toivola	6.3 miles	8
Silica	6.9 miles	11
Little Swan	8.4 miles	10
Onega	9.8 miles	10
Elmer	10.1 miles	8
Riley	11.4 miles	10
Casco	12.5 miles	9
Meadowlands	13.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661513. 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.