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Stubbs Bay, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Orono City. It lies in ZIP code area 55356. The Survey maps it on the Excelsior quadrangle.

Stubbs Bay within Hennepin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stubbs Bay between 1999 and 2017, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 November 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 October 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stubbs Bay in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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
July 2008HailStubbs Bay-Hail reported in Stubbs Bay area of Lake Minnetonka.

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Orono0.6 miles20
Saga Hill1.9 miles18
Long Lake2.4 miles20
Crystal Bay2.5 miles20
Spring Park2.9 miles18
Maple Plain3.1 miles15
Minnetonka Beach3.2 miles20
Island Park3.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 659727. 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.