BlockAsh Lake, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Northwest St. Louis unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. The Survey maps it on the Ash Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,335 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Ash Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ash Lake between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ash Lake in 2 storm reports in 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ash Lake | - | A swath of trees 1 mile long and 1/4 mile wide was blown down on Labonty's Point on Lake Kabetogama. The wind speed is estimated. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ash Lake | - | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged approximately 11,000 acres of timber in a largely uninhabited area of northwestern St. Louis County between Pearl Lake and Little Johnson Lake. About 75% of the trees in the 20-mile long swath were downed or severely damaged. The time of the damage is estimated. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cusson | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| Arbutus | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Nett Lake | 12.0 miles | 7 | |
| Orr | 12.3 miles | 7 | |
| Glendale | 13.6 miles | 7 | |
| Kabetogama | 16.2 miles | 9 | |
| Gheen Corner | 18.2 miles | 9 | |
| Gheen | 18.2 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikipedia article on Ash Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4804410 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660687. 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.