Bridgeman, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in May Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56473. The Survey maps it on the Casino quadrangle.

Bridgeman within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Casino quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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	47
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
30 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2008	Natural	5.7 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Casino	3.7 miles	10
Pillager	6.8 miles	17
Sylvan	9.8 miles	17
Leader	10.7 miles	10
Ellis	10.9 miles	10
East Gull Lake	12.0 miles	15
Graff	13.1 miles	9
Lake Shore	13.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654615. 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.