Wannaska, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Mickinock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56761. It stands on Norin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wannaska quadrangle. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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 Pencer quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wannaska quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Wannaska between 1993 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wannaska in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Wannaska | $20,000 | A 40x72 foot storage barn was completely demolished, with debris spread downwind several hundred feet. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Wannaska | $5,000 | Hailed for about 15 minutes, or from about 615 pm to 630 pm. Hail size ranged from pea to nickle size. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Wannaska | $2,000 | Four inches of rain fell in three hours. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Public reports a few small tree branches down, in addition to downed power lines and dime sized hail. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken across northwest Grimstad Township. Time estimated based on radar. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Wannaska | - | The hail was mainly quarter sized. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Large trees, greater than a foot in diameter, were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Trees up to 8 inches in diameter were uprooted or snapped. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Trees up to 12 inches in diameter were snapped. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | 18 inch diameter trees were uprooted and a house window was shattered by the wind driven hail. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | 12 inch diameter trees were blown down, some pulling out the roots as well. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wannaska | - | Many vehicle and house windows were broken by the large hail. Power lines were downed in the Greenbush, Badger, and Wannaska areas. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | A mobile home was shifted from its foundation and its skirt was ripped off. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wannaska | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Wannaska | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Wannaska | - | 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.
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 Wannaska | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7968035 | The 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 653768. 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.





