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Swanburg, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Timothy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56474. The Survey maps it on the Lower Whitefish Lake quadrangle.

Swanburg within Crow Wing 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Swanburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
16 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2014Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2014Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Swanburg: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swanburg in 1 storm report in 1996: 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 1996HailSwanburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Manhattan Beach2.3 miles10
Fifty Lakes4.4 miles11
Lakewood Court6.2 miles10
Cross Lake6.5 miles11
Breezy Point8.8 miles12
Jenkins10.6 miles11
Emily11.5 miles11
Pequot Lakes11.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 652912. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.