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Pennington, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Brook Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56663. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Pennington within Beltrami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Pennington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
21 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minor14 acresChippewa National ForestPUG HOLE
4 June 2002Smokingunder an acreChippewa National ForestELONGATED CAMPFIRE
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestTHIRD RIVER
3 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestHYDROLICS
25 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestRICE LAKE
2 June 2002Fireworks2.0 acresChippewa National ForestBEGINNER
12 June 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestSTONY POINT
1 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestCASSAWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennington in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 9 hail, 9 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
June 2021HailPennington-Photo of 1 inch hail was sent by a trained spotter located 15 miles east of Bemidji.
June 2021HailPennington-A report of 1 inch hail was received via webcam located at Pimushe Resort.
July 2021HailPennington-Large hail reported east of Scenic Highway 39 and Knutson Dam Campground.
July 2021HailPennington-Several reports of tennis ball to baseball sized hail near Pennington in southern Moose Lake and in Brook Lake Townships from 605 PM CDT to 615 PM CDT. Photos and reports relayed via social media.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPennington-Trees were blown down, some blocking Power Dam and Connor roads.
June 2019HailPennington-A wall cloud and quarter sized hail were observed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPennington-Four to six inch diameter branches were blown down on Star Island. Occasional dime sized hail and heavy rain occurred from 410 pm to 415 pm CDT.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPennington-Multiple trees were blown down along a five mile stretch of highway 39.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPennington-A few large trees were blown down or snapped on Star Island.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPennington-A few trees were blown down on the north end of Cass Lake. A nearby RWIS mesonet station reported peak winds to 60 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPennington-Four to five trees on the west side of Lake Pimushe were snapped ten feet above ground level.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPennington-A tree was blown down near Moose Lake.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPennington-Many trees were blown down and power poles snapped along Roosevelt Road and around northern Cass Lake.
August 2011HailPennington-no account filed
May 2008HailPennington-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPennington-no account filed
July 2003HailPennington-no account filed
August 2000HailPennington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Andrusia9.7 miles9
Tenstrike15.8 miles9
Turtle River16.1 miles11
Hines16.1 miles9
Blackduck17.6 miles9
Lavinia17.7 miles11
Rosby18.0 miles10
Norway Park19.0 miles10

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 PenningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7163458The 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 657774. 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.