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Santiago, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Santiago Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55371. The Survey maps it on the Santiago quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Santiago within Sherburne 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Santiago between 1992 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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 burning81
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSherburne National Wildlife RefugeMNSBR-FY19-WF-STORLEY
30 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeNO FOX PL
23 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeFOX
23 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeHMONG
16 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
14 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherburne County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santiago in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 hail, 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
April 2025HailSantiago-Photo provided on social media of 1.5-inch hail.
July 2009HailSantiago-The public reported one inch diameter hail which also shredded a local garden.
May 2008HailSantiago-Occurred at Highway 23 and County road 16.
April 2025HailSantiago-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSantiago-no account filed
May 2008HailSantiago-no account filed
May 2006HailSantiago-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherburne 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
Briggs Lake6.5 miles10
Orrock7.9 miles14
Pine Ridge Court10.1 miles14
Becker10.5 miles16
Clear Lake11.5 miles16
Salida12.6 miles16
Baldwin13.3 miles11
Cable13.6 miles12

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 SantiagoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18377994The 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 651206. 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.