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Wylie, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wylie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56750. The Survey maps it on the Red Lake Falls quadrangle.

Wylie within Red Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wylie between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,334 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
7 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution317 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2005Arson/incendiarism300 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2004Debris and open burning1,120 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesST HILAIRE
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism500 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK RIVER
2 October 2012Arson/incendiarism84 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Red Lake 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 Wylie: 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
Concrete Inc Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Red Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wylie in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2009: 3 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2009FloodWylie$5,000no account filed
May 2007HailWylie-no account filed
September 2007HailWylie-no account filed
July 2001HailWylie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Lake 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
Dorothy5.5 miles10
Red Lake Falls6.9 miles10
Huot7.6 miles10
Perault10.8 miles10
Delorme14.0 miles10
Terrebonne14.7 miles10
Plummer16.9 miles10
Brooks21.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654402. 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.