BlockCountry Acres, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Winsted Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55395. The Survey maps it on the Winsted quadrangle.
On record in Country Acres
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.
Winsted City Halllisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Winsted quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Country Acres in 2011, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winsted | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sherman | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lester Prairie | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Silver Lake | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| South Silver Lake | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Koniska | 12.4 miles | 10 | |
| Komensky | 12.7 miles | 11 | |
| Plato | 13.7 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2065192. 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.