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Mission, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Mission Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56441. It stands on Little Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Trommald quadrangle.

Mission within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1

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
3 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burning1.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mission: 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 14Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 15Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Gloria MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Gloria MineManganesePast Producer1920
Gloria MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Hunter ReserveIronProspect
Hunter Reserve X-35Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Preston Reserve I-1Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Preston Reserve I-1Iron, ManganeseProspect
Whitmarsh Reserve H-66Iron, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024HailMission-Hail fell continuously for 15 minutes and stripped leaved from trees and broke a window.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMission-A tree was blown down and a pontoon boat flipped on Horseshoe Lake.
June 2016HailMission-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Manganese4.7 miles10
Wolford4.8 miles10
Cross Lake5.9 miles11
Trommald6.0 miles10
Armour Number Two Mine8.3 miles11
Cuyuna8.4 miles10
Ironton8.6 miles11
Crosby8.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654833. 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.