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Constance, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Andover City. It lies in ZIP code area 55304. The Survey maps it on the Cedar quadrangle.

Constance within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Constance between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,939 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
6 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Constance: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anoka County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Anoka 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
Andover1.5 miles20
Ham Lake1.9 miles13
Soderville3.5 miles13
Cedar4.4 miles16
Johnsville4.8 miles19
Lake Netta5.2 miles13
Northdale5.3 miles20
Thompson Heights5.7 miles20

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 ConstanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5163485The 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 641447. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.