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Mayhew, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mayhew Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56379. The Survey maps it on the Mayhew quadrangle.

Mayhew within Benton County

On record in Mayhew

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Mayhew between 1992 and 2020, burning about 415 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
25 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Debris and open burning60 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mayhew: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Benton County Marl BedLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayhew in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2019Funnel CloudMayhew-A storm chaser documented a funnel cloud. It was not possible from the video to determine whether it touched down, and there were no reports of damage, so it was deemed to have been a funnel cloud.
June 2005HailMayhew-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Fruitville1.7 miles11
Rockwood Estates4.5 miles13
Watab4.5 miles13
Popple Creek5.8 miles11
Rice6.4 miles10
Jakeville7.1 miles11
Evergreen Village7.6 miles12
Parent8.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 647632. 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.