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Pinetop, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northome unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56660. The Survey maps it on the Mizpah NE quadrangle. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Pinetop within Koochiching 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Pinetop between 1992 and 2019, burning about 264 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
26 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL216
7 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresRed Lake AgencyR244
27 May 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresRed Lake AgencyR242

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinetop in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPinetop-A roof was blown off a pole barn.

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Gemmell4.8 miles9
Mizpah5.5 miles9
Wildwood7.2 miles10
Forest Grove8.4 miles9
Northome9.7 miles11
Margie15.6 miles7
Gates Corner21.6 miles8
Sturgeon River Landing24.0 miles7

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 PinetopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692994The 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 657853. 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.