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Rosewood, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in New Solum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56701. The Survey maps it on the Rosewood quadrangle.

Rosewood within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,114 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2008Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2005Arson/incendiarism500 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rosewood: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Falls Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Halverson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosewood in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Trees uprooted east of Rosewood.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Two power poles were cracked and leaning along highway 59, south of county road 3.
June 2019HailRosewood-Wind driven hail broke a yard light.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Trees were blown down near the Pennington County line.
July 2013HailRosewood-A fair amount of penny sized hail fell and drifted, causing some minor garden damage.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Rosewood-A brief touchdown in a open field was noted. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
August 2010Funnel CloudRosewood-Multiple funnel clouds were reported.
July 2008HailRosewood-no account filed
June 2007HailRosewood-no account filed
May 2004HailRosewood-no account filed
August 2001HailRosewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Viking6.4 miles10
Holt8.8 miles9
Newfolden11.7 miles10
Ellerth15.1 miles10
Foldahl17.0 miles9
Radium17.4 miles10
Middle River18.2 miles9
Strandquist22.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 650302. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.