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Wilkinson, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Wilkinson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56461. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat Lake quadrangle.

Wilkinson within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Wilkinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Smoking1
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
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestWELCH LAKE
26 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreChippewa National ForestOAK POINT
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChippewa National ForestLUPINE
20 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wilkinson: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Cass County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Cass County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Cass County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilkinson in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWilkinson-Trees were blown over on the western side of Leech Lake Township.

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
Cass Lake9.0 miles9
Cuba (historical)10.2 miles9
Walker10.5 miles10
Baker10.6 miles10
Onigum10.7 miles10
Ah-gwah-ching12.7 miles10
Schley13.9 miles9
Bald Eagle Center15.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 659012. 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.