Perault, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lake Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56750. The Survey maps it on the Marcoux Corners quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Perault within Red Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1918 USGS Red Lake Falls quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Red Lake Falls quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Marcoux Corners quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Perault in 2012, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Glacial Ridge	RED LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Delorme

Every fire recorded in Red Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Perault: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bradshaw Gravel Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bradshaw Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crookston Cattle Co Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Red Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perault in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Hail	Perault	-	Public reports quarter sized hail 5 SSW Red Lake Falls. States beans and corn crop suffered damage. Beans stripped to the stems.
July 2014	Tornado (EF2)	Perault	-	This tornado began near Eldred, in Polk County, at 1952 CST. From Eldred, it tracked across the south side of Crookston, through Gentilly, where it crossed into Red Lake County about four miles east-northeast of Gentilly. From this point it continued east-northeast to a point about eight miles east-southeast of Red Lake Falls. The total track length was about 38 miles, with about 13 miles of the total in Red Lake County. The tornado was wrapped in heavy rains and damaging downburst winds and it snapped or uprooted numerous trees along its path, tore sections of roofing off of buildings and residences, tumbled empty rail cars, and snapped power poles. Peak winds were estimated at 120 mph.
July 2015	Funnel Cloud	Perault	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Perault	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Perault	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Perault	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Lake 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Delorme	3.3 miles	10
Red Lake Falls	4.9 miles	10
Huot	8.0 miles	10
Terrebonne	8.4 miles	10
Wylie	10.8 miles	10
Dorothy	11.5 miles	10
Plummer	14.8 miles	10
Brooks	15.3 miles	10

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 Perault	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060204	The 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 654873. 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.