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Wawina, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wawina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55736. The Survey maps it on the Wawina quadrangle. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Wawina within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wawina between 1992 and 2020, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2009Smoking4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Arson/incendiarism23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wawina: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Itasca County Peat BogsPeatPast Producer

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wawina in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWawina-Trees up to 18 inches in diameter were blown down along U.S. Highway 2.

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Swan River4.6 miles8
Goodland7.6 miles8
Warba9.4 miles9
Marrier Estates9.7 miles9
Philbin13.9 miles9
Bengal15.1 miles11
Blackberry16.9 miles9
Pengilly19.7 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 WawinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7975621The 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 653862. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.