Bergville, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Ardenhurst Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56661. The Survey maps it on the Northome South quadrangle. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.

Bergville within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1919 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Northome South quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Northome South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bergville between 1999 and 2018, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
12 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	SEMI TRUCK
6 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2003	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	BERGVILLE LAKE
8 April 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	ISLAND LAKE
29 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	REARING POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca 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
Alvwood	3.9 miles	11
Orth	4.5 miles	11
Houpt (historical)	6.8 miles	10
Dunbar	9.2 miles	12
Rosy	9.2 miles	11
Dora Lake	12.4 miles	12
Squaw Lake	12.7 miles	12
Pomroy	14.5 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Bergville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692530	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 655339. 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.