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Wrightstown, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Woodside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56453. The Survey maps it on the Wrightstown quadrangle.

Wrightstown within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Wrightstown between 1995 and 2005, burning about 602 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 May 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2004Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Arson/incendiarism60 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1995Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrightstown in 17 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 14 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022HailWrightstown-One inch hail was reported, as well as numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken by a damaging wind gust.
May 2022Funnel CloudWrightstown-Report of a funnel cloud near the Otter Tail and Todd County line was relayed by dispatch.
July 2020Funnel CloudWrightstown-A persistent wall cloud with a sustained funnel moved across northwest Woodside Township.
September 2017HailWrightstown-A few quarter to half dollar sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
June 2016HailWrightstown-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
July 2011HailWrightstown-The time was estimated from radar.
August 2010Tornado (EF1)Wrightstown-Several large tree limbs were twisted or broken down in tree stands and shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
September 2007HailWrightstown-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
July 2019HailWrightstown-no account filed
July 2019HailWrightstown-no account filed
June 2016HailWrightstown-no account filed
July 2008HailWrightstown-no account filed
March 2004HailWrightstown-no account filed
July 2002HailWrightstown-no account filed
September 2002HailWrightstown-no account filed
June 2001HailWrightstown-no account filed
June 2001HailWrightstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Lyman5.6 miles9
Almora9.7 miles9
Deer Creek10.8 miles9
Parkers Prairie11.3 miles9
Parkers Prairie Park11.5 miles9
West Wind Estates13.7 miles9
Bluffton13.7 miles9
Henning14.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654397. 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.