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Bucks Mill, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56501. The Survey maps it on the Lake Franklin quadrangle.

Bucks Mill within Becker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Bucks Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
4 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1995Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bucks Mill: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nester Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Becker 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
Shoreham2.5 miles11
Lake Eunice3.3 miles16
Detroit Lakes7.5 miles10
Richards7.8 miles11
Cormorant8.0 miles11
Audubon10.3 miles11
Frazee11.4 miles12
Town Lake Estates11.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654619. 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.