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Murray, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Breitung Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55782. The Survey maps it on the Soudan quadrangle.

Murray within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Murray between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Murray: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
North American MineGoldUnknownGold
Armstrong Bay MineIronPast Producer1923
Soudan Iron MineIronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray in 2 storm reports in 2015: 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindMurray-There were several broken and uprooted trees blocking US 169 along a 300 to 400 yard area.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMurray-There were trees down near mile marker 269 on Highway 169.

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
Soudan3.0 miles12
Tower Junction4.1 miles11
Eagles Nest4.7 miles12
Tower5.0 miles11
McComber6.5 miles12
Wahlsten7.8 miles13
Robinson7.9 miles12
Burntside Lake9.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662014. 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.