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Huntersville, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Huntersville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56464. The Survey maps it on the Huntersville quadrangle.

Huntersville within Wadena 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.

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Huntersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,192 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1996Natural8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burning4.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1996Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wadena County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntersville in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2019HailHuntersville-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
July 2018HailHuntersville-Hail and very heavy rain fell.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHuntersville-Numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted around the Huntersville State Forest and throughout Shell River and Huntersville townships.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHuntersville-Several large tree branches were blown down.
June 2008Funnel CloudHuntersville-A brief funnel cloud was reported.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHuntersville-Tree damage was reported near Duck Lake.
July 2020HailHuntersville-no account filed
October 2005HailHuntersville-no account filed
May 2001HailHuntersville-no account filed
July 2001HailHuntersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wadena 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
Nimrod9.5 miles8
Menahga11.0 miles10
Sebeka14.5 miles9
Oylen14.7 miles8
Blue Grass17.2 miles9
Esterdy22.3 miles9
Wadena26.4 miles9
Verndale26.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654760. 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.