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Hunters Park, Minnesota

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55803. It stands on Tischer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Duluth quadrangle.

Hunters Park within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Hunters Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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
9 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 Hunters Park: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arrowhead Blacktop CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mailing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

24 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunters Park in 24 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
September 2023Flash FloodHunters Park$250,000Thunderstorms over parts of Duluth dropped upwards of 3 to 6 inches of rain over a localized area focused on the Chester Creek basin over a period of 2 to 3 hours. The highest rainfall totals were located at the top of the hill in the College of St. Scholastica area. Flash flooding was reported upstream from this location along Arrowhead Road where 3 to 6 inches of water was flowing over the road where Chester Creek passed under the road. As the surge of water flowed downstream, it damaged walkways along the creek and sent 2 to 5 inches of water onto side streets and Kenwood Avenue. Chester Creek runs through tunnels for much of its trip down the Duluth hillside and this volume of water overwhelmed the tunnels sending a large stream of rapidly flowing water 3 to 10 inches deep down the hill. This affected a few apartment buildings in the vicinity of 7th Avenue and 3rd Street which required a few rescues/evacuations of lower level residents and pets in the buildings by the fire department. Interstate 35 runs through tunnels underground at the base of the hill and the water surging down the hillside began to collect in the tunnels. Standing and flowing water in the tunnels resulted in the closure of the tunnels for a period. Water of at least 4 to 6 inches in depth was covering the southbound lanes in spots. The water receded during the early morning hours of the 12th with cleanup occurring over the remainder of the week.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHunters Park$20,000A roof was blown off of an addition to a home near Northwoods County Club.
July 2023HailHunters Park-A few trees were down in the area as well.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-Several medium-sized trees snapped near the base that fell onto power lines.
September 2023Flash FloodHunters Park-Rapidly flowing water was observed along Pitt Street in the Lakeside neighborhood of Duluth.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A power line taken down due to a 50 to 60 foot tall tree snapping.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A large tree was downed onto a power line on Tioga Street and was on fire.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A 12 to 18 inch diameter tree was down down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-Several trees were blown down on North 47th East.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A large tree was blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A 90' tall tree was blown down and laying across 52nd Avenue East.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-A large tree fell and damaged a vehicle.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHunters Park-There were numerous trees down in the Lakeside neighborhood on London Road.
June 2012Flash FloodHunters Park-Deepening water covered roadways around Woodland and St Marie Avenues.
July 2024HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2024HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2023HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2023HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2023HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2023HailHunters Park-no account filed
July 2023HailHunters Park-no account filed
June 2020HailHunters Park-no account filed
June 2014HailHunters Park-no account filed
June 2012HailHunters Park-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodland1.3 miles17
Lester Park2.9 miles17
Duluth3.6 miles17
Arnold3.6 miles15
Duluth Heights3.7 miles15
Rice Lake5.0 miles15
Missabe Junction5.6 miles15
Lakewood6.3 miles11

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 Hunters ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5944126The 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 661520. 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.