Brickton, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Princeton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55371. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle.

Brickton within Mille Lacs 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.

1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Brickton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 694 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	63
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mille Lacs County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brickton: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mcminn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Sanford Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mille Lacs 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
Princeton	2.9 miles	11
Woodward Brook	4.9 miles	10
Pease	6.6 miles	11
Estes Brook	7.5 miles	11
Foreston	10.4 miles	11
Milaca	10.6 miles	10
Bock	12.5 miles	11
Page	19.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654614. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.