BlockKragnes, Minnesota
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kragnes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56560. The Survey maps it on the Fargo North quadrangle.
On record in Kragnes
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
John Olness Houselisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fargo North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kragnes between 2017 and 2019, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CTY 17 AND CTY 22 |
| 25 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 22 AND RED RIVER BRIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kragnes in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kragnes | - | Broadcast Media relays a report of 7 inch branches snapped in Oakport Township. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Kragnes | - | Dilworth gage, on the Buffalo River. Crested at 24.64 ft on April 16th at 09:15. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kragnes | - | Trees were blown down in a yard. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Kragnes | - | The large hail shredded cornfields. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Kragnes | - | Penny to nickel sized hail fell. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kragnes | - | A grain bin under construction was blown over. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Kragnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Kragnes | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakport | 4.1 miles | 25 | |
| Georgetown | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Moorhead | 7.9 miles | 25 | |
| Greenwood Communities | 8.0 miles | 25 | |
| Dilworth | 8.1 miles | 24 | |
| Averill | 10.9 miles | 23 | |
| Glyndon | 12.0 miles | 23 | |
| Finkle | 12.0 miles | 24 |
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 Kragnes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q33452905 | The 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 646243. 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.