Clear View, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Scambler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56572. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cormorant quadrangle.

Clear View within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1914 USGS Pelican Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Pelican Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Cormorant quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

In the county-history sources

67 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Scambler Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Scambler Township - 67 words.

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Clear View between 1992 and 2019, burning about 451 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	67 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Dunvilla

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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
Dunvilla	3.9 miles	11
Pelican Rapids	9.5 miles	11
Norwegian Grove	10.8 miles	11
Vergas	14.0 miles	16
Erhard	15.4 miles	10
Edwards	18.3 miles	12
Dent	21.2 miles	12
Luce	21.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2127443. 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.