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Mavie, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Cloverleaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56725. The Survey maps it on the Mavie quadrangle. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Mavie within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Mavie between 2012 and 2018, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2017Debris and open burning118 acresAgassiz National Wildlife RefugeGOLDEN WILLOW
18 May 2012Arson/incendiarism80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Arson/incendiarism17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mavie in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 8 hail, 4 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMavie$500Several large branches were blown down.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindMavie-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
August 2020HailMavie-Nickel to half dollar sized hail fell.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMavie-The wind gust was measured by the NDAWN station near Mavie.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMavie-Several large tree branches and limbs were blown down in shelterbelts across southern Clover Leaf and northern Kratka townships. A nearby NDAWN wind sensor measured peak winds of 55 mph.
July 2001HailMavie-The hail fell along the county line.
August 2020HailMavie-no account filed
August 2010HailMavie-no account filed
June 2007HailMavie-no account filed
September 2007HailMavie-no account filed
May 2005HailMavie-no account filed
May 2005HailMavie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
Goodridge6.9 miles6
High Landing9.5 miles6
River Valley11.9 miles6
Erie12.4 miles6
Hazel12.7 miles10
Challenger Court12.9 miles10
Basswood Court12.9 miles10
Greendale Manor12.9 miles10

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 MavieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25004066The 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 647625. 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.