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Onega, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Hibbing City. It lies in ZIP code area 55746. The Survey maps it on the Little Swan quadrangle.

Onega within St. Louis 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Onega between 1992 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning7.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2008Natural98 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Debris 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

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onega in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
June 2022HailOnega-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
Little Swan1.5 miles10
Riley6.2 miles10
Casco7.9 miles9
Wilpen8.4 miles13
Cherry8.5 miles14
Ruby Junction9.4 miles14
Redore9.4 miles14
Dunwoody Junction9.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662105. 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.

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.