Alford, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Wrenshall City. It lies in ZIP code area 55797. The Survey maps it on the Cloquet quadrangle.

Alford within Carlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Cloquet quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Alford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	21
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alford: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carlton County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Bush Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cherrie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Koski Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thompson Twp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carlton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wrenshall	1.0 miles	8
Thomson	2.3 miles	9
Carlton	3.1 miles	9
Scotts Corner	3.4 miles	8
Brownell	3.9 miles	9
Esko	5.2 miles	9
Scanlon	5.7 miles	9
Pleasant Valley	6.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654564. 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.