BlockChatham, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Skane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56733. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
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.
- 1939 USGS Kennedy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Kennedy quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Kennedy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Chatham (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120604. 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.