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Linden Grove, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linden Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55723. The Survey maps it on the Linden Grove quadrangle.

Linden Grove within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Linden Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden Grove in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLinden Grove$4,000Trees were blown down along Highway 1 near Linden Grove, as well as along Highway 5 South near Side Lake.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLinden Grove-Multiple trees were reported down with several on power lines.

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Meadow Brook4.5 miles9
Sturgeon6.0 miles10
Gheen Corner7.3 miles9
Gheen8.0 miles9
Haley8.3 miles11
Cook9.6 miles9
Celina10.1 miles8
Greaney10.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661723. 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.