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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.

Wannaska within Roseau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

41 since 1993

Regional 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
9 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Tornado (F1)Wannaska$20,000A 40x72 foot storage barn was completely demolished, with debris spread downwind several hundred feet.
July 2008HailWannaska$5,000Hailed for about 15 minutes, or from about 615 pm to 630 pm. Hail size ranged from pea to nickle size.
May 2010Flash FloodWannaska$2,000Four inches of rain fell in three hours.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Public reports a few small tree branches down, in addition to downed power lines and dime sized hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken across northwest Grimstad Township. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWannaska-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2020HailWannaska-The hail was mainly quarter sized.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWannaska-The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Large trees, greater than a foot in diameter, were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Trees up to 8 inches in diameter were uprooted or snapped.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Trees up to 12 inches in diameter were snapped.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWannaska-18 inch diameter trees were uprooted and a house window was shattered by the wind driven hail.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWannaska-12 inch diameter trees were blown down, some pulling out the roots as well.
August 2003HailWannaska-Many vehicle and house windows were broken by the large hail. Power lines were downed in the Greenbush, Badger, and Wannaska areas.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWannaska-A mobile home was shifted from its foundation and its skirt was ripped off.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWannaska-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
July 2020HailWannaska-no account filed
June 2019HailWannaska-no account filed
September 2019HailWannaska-no account filed
June 2012HailWannaska-no account filed
June 2007HailWannaska-no account filed
June 2007HailWannaska-no account filed
June 2003HailWannaska-no account filed
August 2003HailWannaska-no account filed
June 1999HailWannaska-no account filed
July 1999HailWannaska-no account filed
July 1997HailWannaska-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Torfin4.2 miles8
Pencer5.9 miles7
Casperson6.2 miles8
Malung7.9 miles8
Skime10.4 miles7
Roseau13.0 miles9
Fox15.2 miles9
Winner16.2 miles6

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 WannaskaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7968035The 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.