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Weber, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in North Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55056. The Survey maps it on the Typo Lake quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Weber 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Weber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 664 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
Debris and open burning58
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1997Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1998Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2019Smoking2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weber in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2023HailWeber-Strong thunderstorm produced a combination of quarter size hail up to half-dollar size hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWeber-Several trees were blown down southwest of North Branch, Minnesota.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWeber-Several trees were uprooted between Oxford Township in far southeast Isanti County, northeast to North Branch in Chisago County.
July 2023HailWeber-no account filed

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
Blomford2.0 miles11
Bodum5.3 miles11
Stanley5.4 miles11
Spring Lake5.6 miles12
Isanti Estates6.0 miles12
Minnesota Boys Town6.3 miles11
Isanti6.6 miles12
Edgewood7.1 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 WeberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7978736The 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 655000. 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.