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Mahoning, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Hibbing City. It lies in ZIP code area 55746. The Survey maps it on the Hibbing quadrangle.

Mahoning within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

439 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 439 fires within 5 miles of Mahoning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,131 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 313 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/incendiarism313
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 207 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 207 workings within 5 miles of Mahoning: 166 past producers, 20 producers, 17 prospects, 4 plants. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Albany MineIron, Water, Free, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, AluminumPast Producer1903
Carlz No.1 Reserve H-61Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaProspect
Hibbing Taconite MineIron, SilicaProducer1976
Niagra No.1 Reserve St-11Iron, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Aluminum, ManganeseProspect
South Tener MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, AluminumPast Producer1928
Carson Lake Reserve H-58Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, AluminumPast Producer1919
North Eddy MineIron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, AluminumPast Producer1902
Gogebic DepositIron, Water, FreeProspect1848
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 21wIron, Water, FreeProspect
Whitney PitIron, Water, FreePast Producer1974

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahoning in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flood. 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
April 2013FloodMahoning-no account filed

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
Leetonia1.5 miles14
Kerr1.8 miles14
Scranton2.0 miles14
Lavinia2.1 miles14
Hibbing2.4 miles14
Brooklyn2.8 miles14
Kelly Lake2.8 miles11
Ruby Junction3.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661845. 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.