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Puposky, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Durand Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56667. The Survey maps it on the Puposky Lake quadrangle.

Puposky within Beltrami 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

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Puposky between 1993 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2013Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1994Debris and open burning1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puposky in 11 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 8 hail, 2 tornado, 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
July 2008HailPuposky$5,000Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2017HailPuposky-The hail fell along Irvine Avenue.
September 2017HailPuposky-Dime to nickel sized hail fell, along with a few quarter sized hailstones.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPuposky-Trees were blown down near the intersection of Irvine and Arctic road.
July 2016Tornado (EF1)Puposky-The tornado was partially wrapped in heavy rain and downburst winds. The tornado blew down or snapped several hundred trees along its path and one structure had shingles torn off its roof. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. The emergency manager conducted an initial damage survey which was reviewed and confirmed by the NWS.
August 2007HailPuposky-The hail fell on highway 89 near Deer Lake.
September 2007HailPuposky-The hail ranged in size from 0.50 to 1.75 inches.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Puposky-The tornado originated 3 miles east-northeast of Leonard in Clearwater county. Many large trees were knocked over along county road 24. Estimated peak wind speeds were 90 mph.
June 2019HailPuposky-no account filed
July 2016HailPuposky-no account filed
June 2006HailPuposky-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Werner4.3 miles10
Nebish7.2 miles8
Woodland Park9.3 miles11
Birchmont9.4 miles11
Island Lake9.7 miles9
Secluded Acres10.1 miles10
Turtle River10.3 miles11
Aure11.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654894. 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.