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Bartlett, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Grand Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. The Survey maps it on the Twig quadrangle.

Bartlett within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

110 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett between 1993 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 Bartlett: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arrowhead PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La France Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

7 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartlett in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBartlett-A tree was downed across Munger Shaw Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBartlett-A home was damaged when a 16 inch diameter tree was blown over by thunderstorm winds. A 20 inch diameter tree was snapped at the base of its trunk by the winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBartlett-There were large branches blown down along Munger Shaw Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBartlett-Blown down trees were blocking Esker Trail near Fish Lake.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBartlett-Numerous trees were blown down on the northwest side of Caribou Lake on Birch Point Road. A pontoon boat was flipped over on Caribou Lake.
September 2021HailBartlett-no account filed
September 2021HailBartlett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Twig1.8 miles10
Twig Station2.4 miles10
Harnell Park3.4 miles10
Four Corners5.2 miles9
Taft5.7 miles10
Saginaw6.6 miles8
Simar6.9 miles9
Independence7.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660714. 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.

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.