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West Duluth, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55807. It stands on Kingsbury Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle.

West Duluth within St. Louis County

On record in West Duluth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of West Duluth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Duluth: 3 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mailing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Superior Grinding PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Duluth in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 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
September 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Duluth-A large tree up to two feet in diameter was blown down across 59th Avenue West, in West Duluth.
July 2006HailWest Duluth-The hail fell for ten minutes.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Duluth-A huge cottonwood tree and some smaller trees were blown down.
October 2020HailWest Duluth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Bayview0.9 miles20
Oneota1.3 miles20
Zenith Terrace1.3 miles20
Riverside2.0 miles20
Proctor2.2 miles20
Smithville2.7 miles20
Missabe Junction3.5 miles15
Morgan Park3.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662771. 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.