BlockPine Center, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Roosevelt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Platte Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Platte Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Pine Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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 burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 31 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 242 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Center in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Center | $10,000 | A barn door was pushed in and damaged by the wind and a large pine tree was down. All brush surrounding the barn that was standing about 3 to 4 feet high was flattened. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Pine Center | $10,000 | A supercell briefly produced a tornado in a rural area between Brainerd and Garrison. The tornado produced minor damage to one property as well as damaging several trees along its path. The tornado was estimated to be on the ground for nearly 23 minutes |before dissipating as the parent storm became outflow dominant. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Center | - | Branches of various sizes were broken during the storm. |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Pine Center | - | A funnel cloud remained suspended from a wall cloud. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Pine Center | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649444. 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.