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Chippewa City, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the West Cook unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55604. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marais quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Chippewa City within Cook County

On record in Chippewa City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Chippewa City between 1995 and 2020, burning about 22 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestLITTLE DEVIL
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSuperior National ForestHUMPHREY
6 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestSAGUS LAKE
3 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSuperior National ForestPILE #2
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National ForestMILL
14 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestMERIDIAN
12 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestPINCUSHION FIRE
30 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National ForestTOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook 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
Croftville1.4 miles9
Grand Marais1.8 miles9
Maple Hill3.3 miles9
Covill7.9 miles10
Hovland18.3 miles11
Lutsen21.2 miles11
Tofte31.1 miles11
Red Rock31.9 miles10

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 Chippewa CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5101659The 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 655713. 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.