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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Castle Danger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Castle Danger quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2011 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Hail | Castle Danger | - | A spotter reported 3 minutes of dime-sized hail at Gooseberry Falls State Park. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castle Danger | - | Large trees were blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Creek | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| London | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Beaver Crossing | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Alger | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| York | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Stewart | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Waldo | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Two Harbors | 11.2 miles | 11 |
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 Danger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5050044 | The 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.







