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Snellman, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wolf Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56570. The Survey maps it on the Ponsford quadrangle. It stands 1,591 feet above sea level.

Snellman within Becker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Snellman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning28
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 May 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Arson/incendiarism65 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota AgencyBIGBOSS
4 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snellman in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindSnellman$300Large branches were blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSnellman-Received reports of tress down on camper trailers at Little Toad Lake. Power lines down. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
July 2022HailSnellman-A public report of 1.5 inch hail was relayed by a broadcast media partner.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSnellman-A large tree was uprooted onto highway 38. Roof damage was also reported.
August 2018HailSnellman-The hail fell on the east side of Toad Lake.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSnellman-Strong winds and large hail affected the southeast corner of Toad Lake Township. Winds lofted an open faced loafing shed and pulled several of the support posts out of the ground. Numerous large tree branches and limbs were broken down in farm yards resulting in some roof damage.
August 2020HailSnellman-no account filed
July 2016HailSnellman-no account filed
June 2007HailSnellman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Ponsford5.8 miles10
Pine Point6.3 miles10
Wolf Lake6.8 miles9
Osage8.5 miles10
Evergreen9.2 miles10
Midway11.0 miles9
Rochert14.7 miles11
Two Inlets15.3 miles9

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 SnellmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1185392The 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 652203. 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.