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Mahkonce, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Twin Lakes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56557. The Survey maps it on the Roy Lake quadrangle.

Mahkonce within Mahnomen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

954 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 954 fires within 5 miles of Mahkonce between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,554 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 586 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
Arson/incendiarism586
Debris and open burning193
Misuse of fire by a minor104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Fireworks13
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural3
Firearms and explosives use1
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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyHARRY'S FIRE
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyHOOP
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyYELLOW
29 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencySTUSSY
26 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyROCKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahnomen County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahkonce in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 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 2025Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-Estimated 70 mph winds by trained storm spotter 5 S Lengby, small tree branches down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-Estimated 70 mph winds by trained storm spotter 5 S Lengby, small tree branches down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-Several large tree branches were blown down around Island Lake.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-A few large tree branches were blown down near the Island Lake boat dock.
June 2017HailMahkonce-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
June 2017HailMahkonce-A few nickel to half dollar sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-The strong winds damaged trees in the area.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-Three inch diameter tree branches were blown down from Mahnomen to about sixteen miles east of Mahnomen.
May 2008HailMahkonce-Hail fell throughout the Roy Lake area along the Clearwater and Mahnomen County line.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMahkonce-A large branch was torn off a tree.
July 2021HailMahkonce-no account filed
June 2017HailMahkonce-no account filed
May 2007HailMahkonce-no account filed
August 2000HailMahkonce-no account filed
June 1999HailMahkonce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mahnomen 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
Naytahwaush4.3 miles10
Pine Bend7.2 miles9
Beaulieu10.0 miles9
Mahnomen18.7 miles9
Waubun19.8 miles9
Bejou20.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 647382. 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.