BlockBefore

Leader, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Byron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56479. The Survey maps it on the Leader quadrangle.

Leader within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Leader between 1992 and 2020, burning about 561 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Other causes1

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
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1992Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leader in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 8 hail, 5 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 2020Thunderstorm WindLeader-A 6 foot glass-top patio table was overturned by the wind.
June 2019HailLeader-Pea to quarter size hail was falling along with heavy rain.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLeader-Trees were blown down across Highway 64.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLeader-There were several 5 diameter pine trees down, and damage to a 10 diameter oak tree.
July 2008Funnel CloudLeader-Several funnel clouds were spotted, along with wind gusts of up to 70 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLeader-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2007HailLeader-The hail covered the ground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLeader-A pontoon was swamped on Gull Lake. All passengers aboard were rescued.
September 2018HailLeader-no account filed
September 2018HailLeader-no account filed
June 2016HailLeader-no account filed
August 2015HailLeader-no account filed
May 2012HailLeader-no account filed
September 2002HailLeader-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Ellis2.4 miles10
Poplar4.6 miles10
Graff6.5 miles9
Casino9.3 miles10
Bridgeman10.7 miles10
Lake Shore15.9 miles15
Pillager16.7 miles17
East Gull Lake17.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 646556. 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.