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Roosevelt, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Roosevelt City. It lies in ZIP code area 56673. The Survey maps it on the Roosevelt quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Roosevelt within Roseau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt between 1995 and 2020, burning about 571 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
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
31 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roosevelt in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt$15,000Trees were blown down across roads and a tower was blown over.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt$10,000A building collapsed in the high wind.
August 2024HailRoosevelt-Public reports hail that was quarter sized or slightly larger in Roosevelt, MN.
May 2023HailRoosevelt-Report of quarter-sized hail relayed via Facebook.
August 2019Funnel CloudRoosevelt-A funnel cloud formed and moved eastward for a few minutes.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt-A few five inch diameter tree branches were blown down. Heavy rain also occurred.
July 2022HailRoosevelt-no account filed
August 2015HailRoosevelt-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt-no account filed
July 2003HailRoosevelt-no account filed
July 2001HailRoosevelt-no account filed
June 1999HailRoosevelt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Roosevelt Park0.0 miles9
Swift7.4 miles9
North Star Court13.5 miles10
Warroad13.5 miles10
Longworth18.8 miles10
Winner23.1 miles6
Enstrom Estates25.5 miles8
Salol25.5 miles8

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 RooseveltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229403The 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 650236. 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.