Burnett, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Industrial Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. It stands on Beartrap Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alborn quadrangle.

Burnett within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Alborn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Burnett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 maintenance	38
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	2

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
6 September 2005	Natural	1.7 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2013	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 St. Louis 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 Burnett: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
	Bentonite Plant	Iron	Producer
	Dobbis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnett in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnett	-	There were numerous trees blown down.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Culver	2.5 miles	7
Grand Lake	3.8 miles	8
Brookston	4.8 miles	7
Arlberg	5.0 miles	7
Saginaw	5.1 miles	8
Independence	5.2 miles	10
Coleraine Junction	5.2 miles	7
Alborn	5.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660912. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.