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Castle Danger, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. The Survey maps it on the Castle Danger quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Castle Danger within Lake 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Castle Danger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2012Natural1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2011Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Danger in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018HailCastle Danger-A spotter reported 3 minutes of dime-sized hail at Gooseberry Falls State Park.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCastle Danger-Large trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Silver Creek5.2 miles11
London6.7 miles11
Beaver Crossing8.5 miles11
Alger10.2 miles9
York10.6 miles9
Stewart11.0 miles11
Waldo11.0 miles11
Two Harbors11.2 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on Castle DangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5050044The 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 640967. 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.

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.