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Longworth, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56763. The Survey maps it on the Warroad quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Longworth within Roseau 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

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Longworth between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,118 acres in total. None 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
19 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1998Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Longworth: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Roseau County Peat DepositsPeatOccurrence
Springsteel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longworth in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLongworth-A tree was blown down at a campground along the Canadian border.
June 2016HailLongworth-no account filed
August 2015HailLongworth-no account filed
July 2008HailLongworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Warroad6.0 miles10
North Star Court6.0 miles10
Swift11.7 miles9
Enstrom Estates13.5 miles8
Salol13.5 miles8
Roosevelt18.8 miles9
Roosevelt Park18.8 miles9
Roseau23.1 miles9

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 LongworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060071The 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 657205. 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.