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Oxlip, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bradford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55040. The Survey maps it on the Wyanett quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Oxlip within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Oxlip between 1992 and 2020, burning about 605 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning97
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 1996Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxlip in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindOxlip$5,000A few power lines were blown down due to severe straight-line winds.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindOxlip-A photo showed a 10 inch diameter pine tree that was snapped.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOxlip-Several dozen trees were blown down or uprooted on the northwest side of Long Lake and northeast of Lake Francis.
July 2016Funnel CloudOxlip-A funnel was caught on video close to the ground near Marget Lake, but it could not be determined whether it touched down.
May 2012Heavy RainOxlip-A local observer measured 5.50 inches in the last 24 hours.
May 2022HailOxlip-no account filed
May 2018HailOxlip-no account filed
July 2008HailOxlip-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Bradford1.9 miles12
West Lake Francis Shores2.8 miles12
Spencer Brook3.1 miles12
East Lake Francis Shores3.5 miles12
West Point4.0 miles12
Crown5.4 miles15
Pine Brook6.0 miles12
Wyanett6.8 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on OxlipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7115695The 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 654867. 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.