BlockBig Stone Colony, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Graceville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56240. The Survey maps it on the Graceville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1950 USGS Graceville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Graceville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Big Stone Colony in 2012, burning about 265 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 265 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | HOFFMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graceville | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Barry | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Clinton | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Johnson | 9.9 miles | 8 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 11.2 miles | 7 | |
| Beardsley | 12.8 miles | 12 | |
| Foster | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bonanza Grove | 13.7 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640133. 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.