Banning, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Finlayson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55735. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandstone North quadrangle.

Banning within Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Sandstone North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Banning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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	95
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine 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
Sandstone	2.2 miles	7
Groningen	3.9 miles	7
Askov	4.1 miles	7
Finlayson	4.4 miles	7
Friesland	6.6 miles	8
Rutledge	7.2 miles	7
Willow River	10.9 miles	7
Evergreen Park	11.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654585. 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.