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Mission Creek, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mission Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55037. The Survey maps it on the Beroun quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Mission Creek within Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Mission Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,766 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 40 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism40
Equipment and vehicle use34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2013Recreation and ceremony2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mission Creek: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hopkins Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sikkink Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission Creek in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 3 hail. 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 2023HailMission Creek-no account filed
July 2023HailMission Creek-no account filed
July 2015HailMission Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Hinckley2.9 miles8
Evergreen Park2.9 miles8
Beroun4.1 miles13
Brook Park6.8 miles12
Friesland8.0 miles8
Pine City10.0 miles12
Henriette11.2 miles13
Cloverdale11.5 miles7

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 Mission CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692874The 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 654834. 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.