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Silverdale, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. It stands on Bois Forte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Silverdale quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Silverdale within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Silverdale between 1992 and 2017, burning about 47 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresBois Forte TribeOLIKALA
6 May 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresBois Forte TribeDEERHORN
28 May 1996Natural8.6 acresMinnesota AgencySHWY 65
28 May 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyPALMQUIST
23 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresBois Forte TribeSOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
2 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2008Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresBois Forte TribePRAIRIE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverdale in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-Five pine and aspen trees about 2 feet in diameter were knocked down due to straight line winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-Trees were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSilverdale-Trees were blown down.
July 2013HailSilverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Rauch2.7 miles8
Craigville27.3 miles8
Ray29.8 miles10
Ericsburg36.6 miles8
Littlefork37.0 miles7
Wisner37.3 miles7
Grand Falls39.1 miles7
Big Falls39.6 miles7

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 SilverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7516661The 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 654944. 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.