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Mildred, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Pine River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56435. The Survey maps it on the Mildred quadrangle.

Mildred within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Mildred between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 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 Cass County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mildred in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMildred-County Road 25 was blocked by a blown down tree.
August 2024HailMildred-no account filed
August 2024HailMildred-no account filed
September 2023HailMildred-no account filed
May 2008HailMildred-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Pine River4.1 miles10
Chickamaw Beach4.3 miles10
Backus5.3 miles9
Oshawa9.8 miles9
Pontoria10.1 miles9
Hackensack12.5 miles10
Graff13.3 miles9
Poplar16.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 657393. 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.