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Lennox, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fort Ripley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Fort Ripley quadrangle.

Lennox within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Lennox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 1 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1
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
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lennox: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 21Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganeseProspect
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lennox in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2012FloodLennox-The Mississippi River at Brainerd began July above its previous record flood, at 17.48 feet. The river at Brainerd fell to its 13 foot flood stage at 800 AM on July 16th.
August 2015HailLennox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Crow Wing3.7 miles18
Saint Mathias5.1 miles13
Fort Ripley5.4 miles13
Barrows6.2 miles18
Baxter7.5 miles18
Brainerd10.9 miles15
Meadow View Manor11.4 miles15
Shephard12.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654792. 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.