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Walbo, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Springvale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. The Survey maps it on the Bradford quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Walbo within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Walbo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 1 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Natural1

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
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2019Debris and open burning1.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walbo in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2013Heavy RainWalbo-Storm total rainfall amount of 2.20 inches was measured near Walbo.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWalbo-Several large tree limbs were blown down near Walbo, Minnesota.
May 2008HailWalbo-Occurred at Highway 95 and Rum River at Walbo.

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Springvale3.2 miles12
Pine Brook3.3 miles12
West Point3.9 miles12
Bradford5.0 miles12
West Lake Francis Shores5.5 miles12
Cambridge5.5 miles11
East Lake Francis Shores5.8 miles12
Edgewood6.2 miles11

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 WalboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961303The 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 654991. 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.