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New Duluth, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55808. It stands on Sargent Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle.

New Duluth within St. Louis County

On record in New Duluth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of New Duluth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance67
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Duluth: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Oliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Duluth in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 7 hail, 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 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Duluth$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and destroyed a camper trailer. Patio furniture was thrown around.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Duluth-A 12 inch diameter pine tree was snapped off 6 feet above the ground by the thunderstorm winds.
June 2016HailNew Duluth-There was dime sized hail.
May 2012HailNew Duluth-The hail shredded leaves and damaged siding.
June 2015HailNew Duluth-no account filed
May 2014HailNew Duluth-no account filed
May 2011HailNew Duluth-no account filed
August 2002HailNew Duluth-no account filed
July 2000HailNew Duluth-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
Gary0.7 miles20
Steelton0.8 miles20
Morgan Park2.1 miles20
Fond du Lac2.5 miles9
Smithville3.1 miles20
Riverside3.6 miles20
Eldes Corner4.5 miles9
Zenith Terrace5.5 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122549059The 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 662043. 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.