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Pine City, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pine City City. It lies in ZIP code area 55063. The Survey maps it on the Pine City quadrangle. 3,130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Pine City within Pine County

On record in Pine City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Pine City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning72
Equipment and vehicle use48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony11
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pine County Peat DepositsPeatPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine City in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 21 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindPine City$500,000Numerous trees were blown down across Pine City and to the east. The Markville area and St. Croix State Park were hit the hardest. In Markville most trees were blown down, eleven homes received minor damage, two homes were rendered unlivable, and a a pole barn was destroyed. In a large portion of St. Croix State Park there was 75 to 100 percent tree damage. There were no visitors at the park at the time due to a state government shutdown.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPine City$2,000Trees were blown down in Grasston Township.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPine City$2,000Power lines were blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPine City$500A tree was blown down on State Highway 70 near the intersection of Pine County Road 1.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPine City$500A large tree was blown down at the intersection of Knob Road and Rolling Hills Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPine City-Tree branches four to six inches in diameter were down and the power was flickering off and on.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPine City-Multiple trees were reported down in the Pine City area.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPine City-A tree limb 8 to 12 inches in diameter was downed across a driveway.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPine City-Numerous trees were blown down in Pine City and to the east.
August 2010HailPine City-The hail fell along State Highway 70 east of Rock Creek.
June 2009HailPine City-The hail fell just east of Pokegama Lake.
June 2009HailPine City-The hail fell for five minutes.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindPine City-Several 18-inch trees uprooted.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPine City-Trees were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPine City-Several trees were blow down across the Finlayson and Sandstone areas.
May 2004HailPine City-Winds were estimated at 45 to 50 mph.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPine City-Trees were blown down.
July 2000Flash FloodPine City-Several county roads were washed out by heavy thunderstorm rains, including county roads 8 and 13 west and east of Pine City. Over 4 inches of rain was reported in Pine City itself.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindPine City-Large tree branches were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Pine City-County sheriff officials and the public reported a tornado touchdown in a rural area along State Highway 70 east of Rock Creek. No damage was reported. Path length, path width, and F-scale are estimated.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPine City-Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines at a resort near Pine City. Wind speed is estimated.
May 2022HailPine City-no account filed
July 2019HailPine City-no account filed
September 2014HailPine City-no account filed
September 2014HailPine City-no account filed
June 2013HailPine City-no account filed
June 2013HailPine City-no account filed
June 2010HailPine City-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPine City-no account filed
August 2007HailPine City-no account filed
April 2004HailPine City-no account filed
May 2001HailPine City-no account filed
May 2001HailPine City-no account filed
June 2001HailPine City-no account filed
June 2001HailPine City-no account filed
July 2000HailPine City-no account filed
September 1998HailPine City-no account filed
July 1996HailPine City-no account filed
August 1993HailPine City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Rock Creek4.7 miles12
Beroun5.8 miles13
Greely7.7 miles12
Henriette8.5 miles13
Mission Creek10.0 miles13
Brook Park10.2 miles12
Hinckley12.8 miles8
Evergreen Park12.9 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 Pine CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2042374The 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 649445. 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.