Armour Number Two Mine, Minnesota

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Ironton Sintering Plant Complexlisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• Ironton City Halllisted 2002 · 0.6 miles away
• Spina Hotellisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away
• Elevated Metal Water Tank, Crosbylisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Soo Line Depotlisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
• Elevated Metal Water Tank, Irontonlisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1912 USGS Deerwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1914 USGS Deerwood quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Armour Number Two Mine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Crosby
• Crosby Beach
• Ironton
• Klondyke
• Homecroft (historical)
• Deerwood

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 144 workings within 5 miles of Armour Number Two Mine: 125 past producers, 13 prospects, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639441. 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.