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Malmo, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Malmo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56431. It stands on Borden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malmo quadrangle. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Malmo within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Malmo between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,105 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2003Debris and open burning11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malmo in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMalmo$10,000Photos were received of extremely localized wind damage consisting of numerous medium to large trees snapped near the base along with upstairs windows blown in. There was no damage to nearly neighbors. A weakening storm moved overhead and likely produced a microburst over the property.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMalmo-A tree was downed by the storm.
June 2018Flash FloodMalmo-Water covered Aitkin County Trunk 2 about 4 miles east of Malmo. A vehicle passing through the road hydroplaned into the ditch.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindMalmo-Several trees were uprooted. A large tree branch landed on a car.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMalmo-A few trees were blown down.
April 2025HailMalmo-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMalmo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Glen5.8 miles10
Glory7.2 miles10
Wealthwood7.4 miles10
Thor11.1 miles7
Redtop12.7 miles6
Cutler12.7 miles11
Bennettville13.0 miles10
Dads Corner13.8 miles6

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 MalmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13533457The 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 647416. 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.