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Border, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northwest Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56623. The Survey maps it on the Border quadrangle.

Border within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Border between 1992 and 2019, burning about 276 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2000Debris and open burning17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1992Arson/incendiarism97 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2008Debris and open burning13 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2003Debris and open burning75 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Frontier3.0 miles6
Central3.4 miles6
Birchdale10.5 miles7
Manitou15.8 miles5
Wayland15.9 miles6
Fairland17.1 miles7
Indus23.9 miles5
Loman28.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654612. 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.