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Orrock, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Orrock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55309. The Survey maps it on the Orrock quadrangle.

Orrock within Sherburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Orrock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,231 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 63 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Recreation and ceremony47
Equipment and vehicle use34
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeNO 6
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeNO S 26
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeTALLAKSON
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugePONTIAC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherburne County

Storms near this place

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orrock in 19 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindOrrock$50,000Several spotters reported large trees blown down, along with damage to an antenna in Zimmerman, Minnesota. Several of the trees blown down had diameters of 30 inches from Orrock, to Zimmerman, Minnesota.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOrrock-Several trees were blown down south of Orrock, and a few roads were blocked.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Orrock-A NWS storm survey concluded that an EF-1 tornado touched down about 5 miles west of Zimmerman and traveled northeast 8.8 miles, dissipating before reaching Highway 169. The storm also produced non-tornadic scattered tree damage due to strong inflow into the storm in a few locations, including on the east side of Highway 169, just south of Princeton. The tornado had a width of 300 yards, and maximum winds of 110 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOrrock-Severe thunderstorms knocked down power lines.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOrrock-Several large one to two foot diameter trees were blown down.
September 2013Heavy RainOrrock-A trained observer measured 2.98 inches of rainfall in less than one hour, southeast of Orrock.
September 2013Heavy RainOrrock-A trained weather observer measured 2.33 inches of rainfall in less than one hour, east of Orrock.
May 2012Heavy RainOrrock-A local observer measured 3.56 inches in the last 24 hours.
May 2008HailOrrock-County Road 5 and 235th.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrrock-A large dump truck was forced off the road by high winds.
May 2022HailOrrock-no account filed
May 2022HailOrrock-no account filed
May 2022HailOrrock-no account filed
August 2020HailOrrock-no account filed
July 2019HailOrrock-no account filed
July 2012HailOrrock-no account filed
July 2011HailOrrock-no account filed
May 2008HailOrrock-no account filed
June 2005HailOrrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherburne 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
Salida7.5 miles16
Big Lake7.7 miles13
Pine Ridge Court7.8 miles14
Zimmerman7.8 miles14
Santiago7.9 miles10
Zimmerman Terrace8.1 miles14
Big Lake Estates8.1 miles13
Becker8.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654861. 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.