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Talmoon, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Lake Jessie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56637. The Survey maps it on the Jessie Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Talmoon within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Talmoon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking1
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
29 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresChippewa National ForestJESSIE LAKE
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChippewa National ForestSWAMP FIRE
29 August 1996Smokingunder an acreChippewa National ForestBLUEBERRY
20 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Recreation and ceremony3.1 acresChippewa National ForestBONES
29 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestPAINT
26 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestMAC
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestJESSE LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmoon in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindTalmoon-Large tree was blown down on the north side of Bowstring Lake.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTalmoon-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 50 knots blew down two trees.
June 2020HailTalmoon-no account filed
July 2012HailTalmoon-no account filed
August 2012HailTalmoon-no account filed
April 2011HailTalmoon-no account filed
July 2008HailTalmoon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Jessie Lake2.3 miles9
Bowstring4.1 miles9
Marcell4.4 miles10
Alder4.6 miles10
Spring Lake5.8 miles10
Suomi8.2 miles10
Inger11.6 miles9
Bigfork11.8 miles10

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 TalmoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7680256The 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 659768. 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.