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Pitt, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Wabanica Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56623. The Survey maps it on the Pitt quadrangle.

Pitt within Lake of the Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Pitt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism26
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pitt in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPitt$50,000Signs were blown down and pieces of a roof torn off.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPitt$3,000Many trees were blown down, one falling on a storage shed.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPitt-A few trees and several large tree branches were broken down by the wind.
July 2001HailPitt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake of the Woods 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
Graceton5.6 miles8
Hackett6.8 miles7
Baudette7.2 miles8
Wheelers Point8.5 miles7
Williams12.1 miles8
Faunce14.3 miles8
Carp15.4 miles8
Clementson16.0 miles6

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 PittAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11009213The 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 654883. 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.