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Simar, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Solway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55720. The Survey maps it on the Adolph quadrangle.

Simar within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Simar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Railroad operations and maintenance125
Debris and open burning94
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Simar: 4 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
La France Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simar in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 2 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
April 2026HailSimar-Hail was mostly pea size but a few stones one inch to one and a quarter inches were found about 45 minutes after the storm passed.
May 2022HailSimar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Munger0.8 miles9
Five Corners3.4 miles9
Adolph4.1 miles9
Four Corners4.4 miles9
Twig Station4.5 miles10
Hermantown5.6 miles15
Twig5.7 miles10
Harnell Park5.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662453. 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.