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Pelland, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Rainy Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56649. It stands on Little Fork River. The Survey maps it on the Pelland quadrangle. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Pelland within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Pelland between 1992 and 2017, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burning18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelland in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 3 hail, 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPelland-A roof of a house was blown off near Pelland Junction.
June 2016HailPelland-no account filed
June 2000HailPelland-no account filed
August 1998HailPelland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Laurel5.3 miles8
Nakoda6.2 miles9
Littlefork8.6 miles7
International Falls10.2 miles9
South International Falls10.3 miles9
Loman12.1 miles6
Jameson12.4 miles10
Ericsburg13.2 miles8

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 PellandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7161528The 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 649252. 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.