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Sherack, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Keystone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56722. The Survey maps it on the Tabor quadrangle.

Sherack within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherack in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 3 hail, 2 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSherack$20,000A grain bin was destroyed in the wind.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSherack$20,000Windows were blown out of a house and a hayshed was destroyed.
June 2010Funnel CloudSherack-A persistent wall cloud with a funnel was viewed from one mile south of Sherack as it slowly tracked east-southeastward.
August 2009HailSherack-no account filed
June 2005HailSherack-no account filed
July 1999HailSherack-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Angus5.9 miles9
Tabor5.9 miles10
Key West5.9 miles8
Euclid8.3 miles9
Roan9.1 miles10
Davidson10.5 miles8
Mallory12.1 miles10
Shirley13.7 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122569913The 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 654937. 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.

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.