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Vining, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vining City. It lies in ZIP code area 56588. The Survey maps it on the Vining quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.

Vining within Otter Tail County

Population over time

2 figures

Vining fell from 78 to 62 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201078
202062-16 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Vining between 1998 and 2019, burning about 201 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
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1

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 April 2005Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2019Debris and open burning92 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE FIRE
17 April 2010Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 December 2002Debris and open burning44 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vining in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 tornado, 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 2020Tornado (EF2)Vining$200,000The tornado, wrapped in heavy rain and downburst winds, snapped multiple power poles at three points along its path. It also tossed calving sheds and flipped an irrigation system, while surrounding winds blew down trees in and around its path. Peak winds were estimated at 115 mph.
July 2020Tornado (EF0)Vining-A persistent funnel cloud briefly touched down. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
June 2020HailVining-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
July 2015Tornado (EF1)Vining-A brief touchdown was viewed and photographed by spotters located near Vining. A few trees in a shelterbelt were snapped roughly eight to ten feet above ground level. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
August 2005HailVining-The large hail stripped the leaves off corn. Five to six inches of rain also fell.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindVining-Trees were uprooted on the shoreline of East Battle Lake.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindVining-Several trees fell at the Lutheran Island Camp on East Battle Lake, knocking down power lines. Trees also fell on a piece of playground equipment, a cabin, and two cars.
July 2010HailVining-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Nirvana2.7 miles13
Woodland Park3.3 miles13
Clitherall5.1 miles13
Henning6.3 miles9
Inglewood9.1 miles13
Almora9.2 miles9
Battle Lake9.4 miles13
Urbank9.8 miles9

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 ViningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1880998The 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 653669. 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.