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Kimberly, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Kimberly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56431. It stands on Portage Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kimberly quadrangle. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Kimberly within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Kimberly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 457 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1996Natural15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2015Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kimberly: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Aitkin County Marl Beds No 12Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimberly in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2016Flash FloodKimberly-There was 10 to 12 of water on the Roadway at the intersection of County Road 5 and Rice River Crossing near Kimberly, MN.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Numerous large trees uprooted along Highway 210.
June 2022HailKimberly-no account filed
July 2018HailKimberly-no account filed
July 2012HailKimberly-no account filed
August 2012HailKimberly-no account filed
July 2000HailKimberly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Rossburg6.3 miles10
Thor6.3 miles7
Hassman8.3 miles10
McGregor8.7 miles5
East Lake9.8 miles5
Glen10.2 miles10
Palisade10.6 miles6
Waldeck10.8 miles10

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 KimberlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073600The 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 646147. 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.