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Wolf, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55751. The Survey maps it on the Eveleth quadrangle.

Wolf within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Wolf between 1992 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 79 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
Arson/incendiarism79
Debris and open burning58
Railroad operations and maintenance47
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Smoking3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder 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

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Wolf: 32 past producers, 11 producers, 2 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904
Alice MineIronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alice MineIronPast Producer
Auburn MineIronProducerHematite, Magnetite
Auburn MineIronProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWolf-An eight inch diameter tree was downed onto a power line.
June 2024HailWolf-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
De Forest1.7 miles12
Leonidas2.1 miles12
Ramshaw2.2 miles12
Iron Junction2.2 miles12
Largo2.9 miles12
Spruce2.9 miles12
Snowden3.1 miles12
Eveleth3.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662817. 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.