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Skime, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Golden Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56761. The Survey maps it on the Skime quadrangle. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Skime within Roseau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Skime between 1992 and 2017, burning about 480 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 1997Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2008Debris and open burning24 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skime in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindSkime$10,000Powerlines were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSkime$500Large trees were blown down.
August 2024HailSkime-Public reports half-dollar sized hail in Skime, MN.
September 2019HailSkime-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
September 2018HailSkime-A lot of smaller sized hailstones also fell.
August 2015HailSkime-Very heavy rain was also reported.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSkime-A few smaller 5 to 8 inch diameter trees were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Skime-This tornado began in Marshall County about 11 miles north of Grygla at 554 PM CDT. The tornado continued into Roseau County and tracked northeastward for roughly a mile. Several large trees were knocked down or snapped along the tornado path. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
June 2007HailSkime-The hail fell along the Roseau and Marshall County line.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSkime-Large poplar trees were blown down onto the road.
August 2006Tornado (F1)Skime-This tornado tracked for at least 10 miles in the Beltrami Island State Forest (passing 2 miles south of Winner, Roseau County) before ending southwest of Norris Camp in Lake of the Woods County. Snapped and uprooted trees were noted for a path up to 100 yards wide where the track intersected available logging roads. The tornado crossed into Lake of the Woods County 12 miles east and 2 miles north of Skime. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
July 2001HailSkime-The hail damaged the awnings on a home.
September 2018HailSkime-no account filed
July 2008HailSkime-no account filed
June 2006HailSkime-no account filed
August 2006HailSkime-no account filed
August 2006HailSkime-no account filed
May 2005HailSkime-no account filed
August 2003HailSkime-no account filed
July 2001HailSkime-no account filed
May 2001HailSkime-no account filed
May 2000HailSkime-no account filed
August 1995HailSkime-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Casperson4.9 miles8
Torfin7.8 miles8
Winner9.3 miles6
Wannaska10.4 miles7
Pencer10.7 miles7
Malung16.8 miles8
Salol22.1 miles8
Enstrom Estates22.1 miles8

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 SkimeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29641966The 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 654945. 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.