Belle Prairie, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 56345. It lies near Roscoe Island. The Survey maps it on the Belle Prairie quadrangle.
On record in Belle Prairie
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Our Lady of the Angels Academylisted 2005 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Belle Prairie quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Belle Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Belle Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
163 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Belle Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 849 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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 | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belle Prairie: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River Area Clays | Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Schling Pit West | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Prairie in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Ripley Junction | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Maple Leaf Court | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Little Falls | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Gregory | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Freedhem | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Randall | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Vawter | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sobieski | 9.9 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639892. 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.







