Barden, Minnesota

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Shakopee City. It lies in ZIP code area 55379. The Survey maps it on the Eden Prairie quadrangle.

Barden within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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.

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 Eden Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Eden Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Barden between 2000 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
5 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOUISVILLE SWAMP
13 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WILKIE 1
6 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WILKIE FOOT BRIDGE
16 July 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLOOMINGTON FERRY
28 June 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CONTINENTAL GRAIN
16 June 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WILKE FIRE
10 June 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WILKIE OLD BOAT LAUNCH
29 May 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLOOMINGTON FERRY 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barden: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Halite. 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
Cargill Salt Plant	Halite	Producer
Shiely Savage Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
W G Pearson Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Glendale	2.3 miles	25
Savage	4.0 miles	26
Port Cargill	4.2 miles	26
Grainwood	5.0 miles	12
Prior Lake	5.4 miles	12
Shakopee	6.2 miles	19
Spring Lake	6.4 miles	12
Credit River	8.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654586. 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.