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Spencer Brook, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Spencer Brook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55371. It stands on Spencer Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wyanett quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Spencer Brook within Isanti County

On record in Spencer Brook

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 1 record

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 12 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Spencer Brook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spencer Brook in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSpencer Brook$25,000In addition to a private weather station that measured 75 mph peak wind gust, Spencer Brook had damage associated with a micro-burst. The severe winds caused three large trees to blow down, along with damage to a homes roof and siding.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSpencer Brook-Several large tree limbs and a few small trees were toppled near Spencer Brook.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpencer Brook-Six inch diameter trees downed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpencer Brook-Six inch diameter tree downed at the intersection of County Rd 40 and County Road 28, one mile West of Spencer Brook.
April 2022HailSpencer Brook-no account filed
August 2018HailSpencer Brook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Oxlip3.1 miles12
West Point3.7 miles12
Bradford3.8 miles12
Wyanett4.5 miles12
Pine Brook5.3 miles12
Crown5.4 miles15
West Lake Francis Shores5.5 miles12
East Lake Francis Shores6.3 miles12

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 Spencer BrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7575999The 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 654954. 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.