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Malung, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Malung Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56751. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malung quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Malung within Roseau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Malung between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,099 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
15 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Debris and open burning40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malung in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 2011LightningMalung$5,000A fire was started by a lightning strike.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMalung-The roof was peeled off a pole barn.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMalung-Several large branches were blown down in a tree claim.
August 2018HailMalung-Dime to quarter sized hail fell across eastern Malung Township.
June 2017Heavy RainMalung-A spotter reported 3.25 inches of rain, which caused some localized street flooding in Roseau.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMalung-Trees were blown down and a roof was damaged.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMalung-Several four inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
August 2015HailMalung-Dime sized hail and 1.18 inches of rain fell.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMalung-Trees were blown down and a roof was damaged.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMalung-Several large tree limbs and a stop sign were knocked down by a burst of thunderstorm wind. Multiple reports of damage were received between Malung and Roseau.
June 2009HailMalung-The hail lasted less than a minute.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMalung-Several large trees and tree limbs were blown down.
September 2018HailMalung-no account filed
September 2018HailMalung-no account filed
August 2015HailMalung-no account filed
August 2015HailMalung-no account filed
May 2010HailMalung-no account filed
June 2006HailMalung-no account filed
July 2001HailMalung-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
Roseau5.5 miles9
Pencer6.8 miles7
Wannaska7.9 miles7
Fox10.3 miles9
Salol10.4 miles8
Enstrom Estates10.4 miles8
Torfin12.1 miles8
Casperson13.7 miles8

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 MalungAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060110The 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 654810. 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.