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Smithville, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55808. It stands on Stewart Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle.

Smithville within St. Louis County

On record in Smithville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Smithville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 maintenance99
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Smithville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Oliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithville in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSmithville-Multiple trees were blown down along the Willard Munger State Trail.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSmithville-A large pine tree was snapped in half by the thunderstorm winds.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSmithville-An 18 inch diameter willow tree showing some evidence of decay was snapped off 8 feet above the ground.
August 2010Flash FloodSmithville-Portions of Grand Avenue near the Smithville, Riverside, and Morgan Park areas of West Duluth were closed due to high water. Some cars became partially submerged and stalled due to 2.5 to 3 feet of water covering 88th Avenue West in Morgan Park. Nearly 4.5 inches of rain fell in West Duluth between 10:00 pm and 12:20 am CDT.
June 2016HailSmithville-no account filed
June 2016HailSmithville-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
Riverside0.8 miles20
Morgan Park1.1 miles20
Steelton2.3 miles20
Gary2.4 miles20
Zenith Terrace2.5 miles20
West Duluth2.7 miles20
Proctor3.0 miles20
New Duluth3.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662478. 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.