BlockStrout, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenleaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55355. The Survey maps it on the Litchfield South quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Litchfield South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Strout between 2009 and 2013, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 113 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 November 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LITCHFIELD WF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strout in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Strout | - | An EF-0 tornado mostly tracked across corn fields, but it did strike a grove of trees and knock down some large tree limbs before dissipating northeast of Lake Minnie Belle. There was also downburst winds around this tornado that occurred west of the path, and just north of the lake between 205th Street, and 624th Avenue. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Strout | - | An individual measured 3.50 inches of rain near Strout. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strout | - | A large tree was uprooted near Strout, Minnesota. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Strout | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beckville | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Acton | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Greenleaf | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rosendale | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Corvuso | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Cedar Mills | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Litchfield | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Cosmos | 8.4 miles | 9 |
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 Strout | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18385851 | The 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 654964. 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.