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Beaver Crossing, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Two Harbors NE quadrangle.

Beaver Crossing within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Crossing between 1992 and 2015, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Other causes1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Natural1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1995Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Beaver Crossing: 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
Big Noise Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Swanstroms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
London3.6 miles11
Castle Danger8.5 miles11
McNair9.5 miles11
Silver Creek9.8 miles11
Darby Junction9.9 miles11
Lauren10.0 miles9
Norshor Junction10.1 miles11
Highland10.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654593. 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.