BlockSvea, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Whitefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56216. The Survey maps it on the Willmar quadrangle. It stands 1,152 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
- 1958 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Svea in 1992, burning about 66 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 66 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | JOHNSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Svea in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Svea | $500,000 | A large grain bin was blown down near Svea. There were also several turkey barns with roofs blown off. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Svea | - | The swath of large hail, up to golf ball size, continued across southern Kandiyohi county between Svea and Lake Lillian. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Svea | - | Several large trees were blown down across County Road 8. In addition, a line of about 12 trees in a wind break were all snapped or blown over along County Road 4 SE. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Svea | - | A trained spotter measured three inches of rainfall in less than two hours. In addition, the local emergency manager reported ponding of water in a campground near Svea. No damage or evacuations occurred. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Svea | - | Estimated winds. Large branches down. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Svea | - | Hail accompanied by strong winds resulted in severe hail damage. Damage estimate for approximately 30,000 acres of crops lost to hail and wind damage between Roseland, Blomkest, Svea and Big Kandiyohi Lake. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Svea | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Svea | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Svea | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blomkest | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Roseland | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Priam | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Willmar | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Lillian | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Parkwood Estates | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Prinsburg | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Kandiyohi | 10.1 miles | 10 |
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 Svea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4904769 | 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 652868. 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.