BlockBirch, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Meadowlands Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55765. The Survey maps it on the Payne quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Payne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Birch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 206 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2002 | Natural | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660804. 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.