Atwood, Minnesota

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.

• 1896 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
• 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Atwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

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:

• Rowland
• Bloomington Ferry
• Eden Prairie
• Richfield
• Bloomington
• Edina

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Atwood: 5 producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639502. 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.