BlockWoodland, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56342. The Survey maps it on the Warman quadrangle. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Warman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Woodland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 5 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Hail | Woodland | $50,000 | There was a swath of large hail, up to golf ball size, that damaged siding, broke windows and damage campers in northern Kanabec County. |
| September 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Woodland | - | 2 homes severely damaged. Large barn destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines down. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Woodland | - | Crop damage. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Woodland | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Woodland | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Woodland | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Woodland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16903682 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 655021. 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.