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Quamba, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Whited Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55007. The Survey maps it on the Quamba quadrangle. 107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Quamba within Kanabec County

Population over time

2 figures

Quamba fell from 123 to 107 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010123
2020107-16 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Quamba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,438 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism58
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kanabec County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quamba in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2001Tornado (F0)Quamba-Tornado touched down on Knife lake and moved onto land. Docks and pontoon flipped. A few dozen trees downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindQuamba-Numerous trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2020HailQuamba-no account filed
July 2019HailQuamba-no account filed
July 2014HailQuamba-no account filed
June 2002HailQuamba-no account filed
June 2002HailQuamba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kanabec 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
Mora6.9 miles11
Grasston8.4 miles13
Grass Lake9.5 miles13
Brunswick10.3 miles11
Warman11.5 miles7
Kroschel11.9 miles6
Coin14.3 miles12
Ogilvie14.6 miles10

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 QuambaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1893400The 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 649769. 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.