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Thorhult, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Steenerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56727. The Survey maps it on the Thorhult quadrangle.

Thorhult within Beltrami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Thorhult between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1,899 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRed Lake AgencyRL348
7 May 2004Arson/incendiarism60 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2014Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2016Debris and open burning25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2012Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2012Arson/incendiarism471 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesTHORHULT
3 April 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2012Arson/incendiarism80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thorhult in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2001Flash FloodThorhult$2,000Ditches overflowed onto county roads.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindThorhult$500Tree branches were blown down.
August 2022HailThorhult-Quarter to half-dollar size hail was noted just off of Rainy River Road NW, west of Malcolm, In the Red Lake Wildlife Management area. Large hail occurred off and on over a 20-minute period.
August 2022HailThorhult-Last of multiple waves of large hail, as reported by the public near Rainy River Road NW.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindThorhult-A few poplar and small pine trees were blown down across a broad area in the Steenerson State Wildlife Management Area. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2022HailThorhult-Hail and very heavy rain fell for 10 to 15 minutes.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindThorhult-Received a report of several large tree branches broken.
July 2014Funnel CloudThorhult-A funnel cloud was visible for several minutes as it crossed highway 89 south of Thorhult. Multiple brief condensation plumes were seen lofting from tree tops up to the main condensation funnel, but no damage was discerned. The funnel was accompanied by very heavy rains and periods of dime to nickel sized hail.
May 2010HailThorhult-Dime to quarter size hail fell along with very heavy rain and strong winds.
June 2006HailThorhult-The hail fell along with 50 mph wind gusts.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindThorhult-Large branches were knocked down. A small tree was snapped off.
July 2005HailThorhult-Two inches of rain was also measured.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindThorhult-Wind damage to crops and trees was reported.
July 2001Flash FloodThorhult-The heavy rain flooded several roads.
July 2011HailThorhult-no account filed
July 2008HailThorhult-no account filed
September 2006HailThorhult-no account filed
June 1996HailThorhult-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Four Town5.8 miles7
Malcolm8.0 miles7
Jelle8.1 miles7
Carmel11.0 miles7
Gates Corner15.8 miles7
Ponemah22.9 miles8
Little Rock26.0 miles9
Red Lake27.3 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122556773The 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 654975. 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.