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Coon Lake Beach, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in East Bethel City. It lies in ZIP code area 55092. The Survey maps it on the Coon Lake Beach quadrangle.

Coon Lake Beach within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Coon Lake Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,730 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2

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
5 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
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
10 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Debris and open burning1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder 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 Coon Lake Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Peat. 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 Peat BogsPeatProducer

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
East Bethel2.6 miles13
Lake Netta2.7 miles13
Mort3.9 miles13
Linwood4.1 miles14
Soderville4.4 miles13
Martin Lake6.0 miles12
Columbus6.3 miles14
Ham Lake6.4 miles13

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 Q122544765The 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 655800. 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.