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Parent, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in St. George Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56379. The Survey maps it on the Foley quadrangle.

Parent within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Parent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning64
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Parent: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parent in 2 storm reports in 2012: 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindParent-Wind speed measured by a private weather station.
May 2012Funnel CloudParent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Popple Creek2.9 miles11
Foley4.6 miles11
Duelm5.0 miles10
Ronneby7.3 miles10
Gilman7.4 miles11
Fruitville7.4 miles11
Jakeville8.1 miles11
Mayhew8.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654870. 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.