Ben Linn Landing, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56627. The Survey maps it on the Lindford SW quadrangle.

Ben Linn Landing within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Lindford quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Lindford SW quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ben Linn Landing between 1994 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2014	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2013	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 Koochiching 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
Sturgeon River Landing	2.6 miles	7
Hendrickson Landing	4.9 miles	7
Big Falls	5.9 miles	7
Grand Falls	6.1 miles	7
Margie	11.1 miles	7
Gates Corner	11.7 miles	8
Wisner	11.7 miles	7
Lindford	12.3 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122591587

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 655328. 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.