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Munger, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Solway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55720. The Survey maps it on the Adolph quadrangle.

Munger within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Munger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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
Railroad operations and maintenance127
Debris and open burning101
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Munger: 5 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Carter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La France Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munger in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMunger-A tree was blown down onto a power line in Solway Township.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMunger-A 30 foot flag pole was blown over.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMunger-Large branches were blown down in the Munger area and Caribou Lake.
September 2021HailMunger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Simar0.8 miles9
Five Corners3.4 miles9
Adolph3.7 miles9
Four Corners4.9 miles9
Twig Station5.3 miles10
Hermantown5.6 miles15
Twig6.6 miles10
Harnell Park6.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662009. 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.