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Sheshebee, Minnesota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Shamrock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55760. The Survey maps it on the Tamarack quadrangle.

Sheshebee within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sheshebee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,783 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 1999Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheshebee in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSheshebee-Numerous large pine trees broken at their mid section.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindSheshebee-Several trees were down on powerlines along with several trees across County Road 6 near Round Lake.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSheshebee-Numerous small trees were uprooted.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSheshebee-A few trees were knocked down by the storm.
May 2022HailSheshebee-no account filed
August 2018HailSheshebee-no account filed
August 2018HailSheshebee-no account filed
August 2018HailSheshebee-no account filed
June 2001HailSheshebee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Minnewawa1.8 miles6
Grayling5.5 miles5
Balsam7.0 miles6
Libby7.0 miles6
Tamarack7.4 miles5
McGregor7.8 miles5
East Lake11.7 miles5
Lawler12.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 651971. 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.