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Whipholt, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Pine Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56484. It stands on Whipholt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whipholt quadrangle.

Whipholt within Cass 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Whipholt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
27 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestWHIPHOLT
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChippewa National ForestBIG HANSON
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChippewa National ForestTIRE
15 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestRAM
30 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestHANSON LAKE
28 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National Forest133 FIRE
21 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChippewa National ForestHOTSAW
8 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestBREVIK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whipholt in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindWhipholt-A report was received of estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph during the storm.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWhipholt-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees. One of the larger trees was 8 inches in diameter.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWhipholt-Sporadic wind damage occurred, with a few medium size trees and large branches snapped off.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Whipholt-A waterspout touched down on the south end of Leech Lake and travelled northeast for ten minutes before dissipating.
June 2022HailWhipholt-no account filed
July 2020HailWhipholt-no account filed
August 2020HailWhipholt-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWhipholt-no account filed
July 1996HailWhipholt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Brevik4.7 miles9
Longville9.2 miles10
Baker9.6 miles10
Onigum10.4 miles10
Ah-gwah-ching10.6 miles10
Hackensack11.6 miles10
Walker12.3 miles10
Pontoria12.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 658974. 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.