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Brittmount, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mountain Iron City. It lies in ZIP code area 55710. The Survey maps it on the Virginia quadrangle.

Brittmount within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Brittmount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSuperior National ForestTIMBERLINE
1 September 2007Other causesunder an acreSuperior National ForestCOMFORT PT. RD FIRE
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSuperior National ForestOLD SAND LAKE FIRE
11 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSuperior National ForestBIG ASPEN
6 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2001Smokingunder an acreSuperior National ForestHIGHWAY 53
25 July 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSuperior National ForestTRILLIUM RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Brittmount: 48 past producers, 14 producers, 5 plants, 1 prospect. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Auburn & Great Western MinesIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1894
Brunt MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1906
Minorca Site PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Connie MineIron, Water, FreePast Producer1978
East Range Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
El Jay #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 18wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Allan MineIronPast Producer1913
Allan MineIronPast Producer
Alpena Mine EastIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Britt4.3 miles12
Parkville4.5 miles16
Mountain Iron4.9 miles16
Franklin5.3 miles16
Virginia5.6 miles16
West Virginia5.6 miles16
Hopper6.0 miles16
Rainy Junction7.0 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122549568The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660882. 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.