BlockLawler, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55760. The Survey maps it on the Lawler quadrangle. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Lawler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Aitkin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
34 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lawler between 1996 and 2019, burning about 168 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2010 | Fireworks | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 June 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2016 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Mille Lacs Tribe | SMOKEY BEAR |
| 4 May 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawler in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawler | - | Multiple large to medium sized trees were snapped and down over roads and powerlines. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Lawler | - | A few culverts were washed out in the Lawler area leading to road closures. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Lawler | - | The tornado touched down in a stand of trees south of 360th Street|approximately 1.5 miles SW of Lawler, MN, at 6:57 PM CDT. It tracked|north-northeast across 360th Street breaking and uprooting trees. The|tornado then tracked over a homestead on Kestrel Avenue approximately|1 mile north of Lawler doing damage to trees, an electrical pole, and|some outbuildings. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawler | - | One hundred feet of roof on a barn was ripped off by the wind. Several large trees were also blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawler | - | A few trees were blown down on County Road 13 east of Lawler. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lawler | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lawler | - | 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.
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 Lawler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22073607 | 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 646531. 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.