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Woodrow, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oak Lawn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle.

Woodrow within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Woodrow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
23 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Woodrow: 17 past producers, 11 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East of Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dunn Reserve H-3Iron, ManganeseProspect
N W I Reserve X-47Iron, ManganeseProspect
N W I Reserve X-48Iron, ManganeseProspect
N W I Reserve X-53Iron, ManganeseProspect
Omaha MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Polk Reserve X-58Iron, ManganeseProspect
Sagamore MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Sagamore MineIron, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodrow in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodrow$5,000An aspen or birch tree was blown over onto a pole barn causing some structural damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWoodrow-A few trees were blown down on Nelson and Tower Roads.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodrow-A 3 ton statue of Babe the Blue Ox at Paul Bunyan Land was blown over by the winds. The statue was free-standing.
August 2014HailWoodrow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Loerch1.0 miles14
Riverton5.1 miles14
Homecroft (historical)5.6 miles14
Meadow View Manor6.0 miles15
Klondyke6.8 miles11
Brainerd7.0 miles15
Merrifield7.4 miles15
Legionville7.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654377. 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.