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Withrow, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in May Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55082. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake East quadrangle.

Withrow within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Withrow between 1999 and 2018, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
14 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2018Natural4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Withrow: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Pete Miller's Highway 94 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Withrow in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2012LightningWithrow$350,000The Stillwater Fire Department spent more than three hours extinguishing a pole barn fire on the 12000 block of Lockridge Avenue North Sunday night due to a lightning strike. Damage to a 40-foot-by-50-foot pole barn was estimated at $350,000. ||Fire crews worked on the fire until 1:30 a.m. Monday. No injuries were reported.
June 2010Flash FloodWithrow-Over six inches of flowing water was reported.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWithrow-Several 2-3 inch diameter tree limbs were blown off near Withrow, Minnesota.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWithrow-A storm survey determined that straight line winds blew down a few trees around Sunset Lake in southeast Hugo, Minnesota.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Grant2.8 miles21
Duluth Junction3.3 miles21
Carnelian Junction3.6 miles22
Maple Island4.1 miles17
Dellwood4.6 miles21
Mahtomedi4.7 miles21
Hugo5.6 miles18
Willernie5.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654293. 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.