Clearwater Estates, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Clearwater City. It lies in ZIP code area 55320. The Survey maps it on the Clearwater quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Clearwater Estates within Wright County

On record in Clearwater Estates

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 3 records

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

First Congregational Church of Clearwaterlisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away
Clearwater Masonic Lodge-Grand Army of the Republic Halllisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away
William W. Webster Houselisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away

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.

1951 USGS Annandale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Clearwater quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Clearwater quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

3,362 words on this township

History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clearwater City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clearwater City - 3,362 words.

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Clearwater Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 455 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
Debris and open burning	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 1996	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright 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
Clearwater	0.7 miles	11
Hasty	4.6 miles	15
Enfield	6.9 miles	15
Silver Creek	7.5 miles	15
Annandale	11.3 miles	10
South Haven	12.3 miles	10
Maple Lake	12.8 miles	10
Monticello	15.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q23773404

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 2067378. 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.