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Pine Brook, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Springvale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. It stands on Pine Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wyanett quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Pine Brook 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Pine Brook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2007Debris and open burningunder 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

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Brook in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2012Heavy RainPine Brook-A local observer measured 3.60 inches in the last 24 hours.
June 2010Heavy RainPine Brook-A local observer reported 4.10 inches of rain west of Cambridge between 230 and 430 am.
June 2007HailPine Brook-no account filed
July 1995Tornado (F0)Pine Brook-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
West Point2.0 miles12
Walbo3.3 miles12
Wyanett3.3 miles12
Bradford4.6 miles12
Dalbo5.0 miles12
Spencer Brook5.3 miles12
Springvale5.3 miles12
Oxlip6.0 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 Pine BrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195075The 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 654880. 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.