Ponemah, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Lower Red Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56666. The Survey maps it on the Ponemah quadrangle.

Ponemah within Beltrami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1919 USGS Ponemah quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Ponemah quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Ponemah quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Upper Red Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1,685 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,685 fires within 5 miles of Ponemah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,592 acres in total. None started naturally. 285 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	499
Debris and open burning	486
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	402
Arson/incendiarism	285
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 469
9 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL374
8 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 470
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL317
6 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL 328
29 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL 473
29 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 525
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 516

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ponemah in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Ponemah	$20,000	Reports of this tornado, along with video, were posted to social media. The tornado touched down just off the shore, over Lower Red Lake. It moved on shore roughly two miles west of Ponemah and continued to track to the east-northeast, for another mile or so, before dissipating. Large poplar and ash tree limbs were broken down along this path. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Ponemah	$20,000	This tornado touched down and tracked along and across the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 25 road for about two miles, to near the south shore of the Lower Red Lake. Trees were torn up quite violently and debris was spread across nearly a mile of BIA25. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.
July 2021	Hail	Ponemah	-	Received a public report of 1 inch hail near Ponemah.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ponemah	-	A few large tree branches were blown down along the northeast shore of Lower Red Lake.
July 2018	Funnel Cloud	Ponemah	-	The funnel cloud was first viewed over Lower Red Lake, west of Ponemah, from Red Lake and other locations.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ponemah	-	Large branches and several trees were blown down.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ponemah	-	Numerous three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down around the area. There was also quite a bit of dime to nickel size hail.
July 2006	Hail	Ponemah	-	Quarter to golfball sized hail occurred along the northwest corner of the Lower Red Lake.
July 2001	Tornado (F0)	Ponemah	-	A tornado was reported over the Lower Red Lake.
June 2016	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ponemah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Ponemah	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Redby	9.8 miles	7
Red Lake	11.3 miles	8
Saum	13.0 miles	9
Shotley	14.7 miles	7
Little Rock	14.8 miles	9
Quiring	14.8 miles	9
Otto	16.9 miles	7
Island Lake	16.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649628. 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.