BlockSyre, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Home Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56584. The Survey maps it on the Syre quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1918 USGS Ulen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Syre quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Syre between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,456 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 55 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | MNDLR-FY19-WF-STUMBO |
| 11 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 631 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 169 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 December 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1,540 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | NEAL WMA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syre in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flood | Syre | $5,000 | Several sections of farm fields and portions of township roads were flooded. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Syre | - | Quarter to Ping-Pong ball sized hail reported by public east of Borup. Time estimated via radar. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Syre | - | Several sections of corn and soybeans were flattened by damaging winds in western Home Lake Township. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Syre | - | 6 inch diameter branches were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Syre | - | Highway 113 was flooded by rising water. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Syre | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654971. 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.