BlockMeadow Brook, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linden Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55723. The Survey maps it on the Meadow Brook quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Meadow Brook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Brook between 1993 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadow Brook in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadow Brook | $1,000 | Trees and branches were blown down. A garage had its roof lifted off with some damage to the walls. A boat house of unknown construction was destroyed. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Meadow Brook | - | The hail fell near Meadow Brook, or 10 miles east of Togo. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Meadow Brook | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linden Grove | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Celina | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sturgeon | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Greaney | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bear River | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Gheen Corner | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Gheen | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Haley | 12.4 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661895. 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.