Covill, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the East Cook unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55604. It stands on Kadunce River. The Survey maps it on the Kadunce River quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Covill within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Kadunce Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Kadunce River quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Grand Marais quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Covill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
19 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Superior National Forest	SECTION SEVEN
4 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Superior National Forest	SQUIRREL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook 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
Croftville	6.4 miles	9
Maple Hill	7.7 miles	9
Chippewa City	7.9 miles	9
Grand Marais	9.7 miles	9
Hovland	10.4 miles	11
Red Rock	24.0 miles	10
Grand Portage	27.8 miles	10
Pigeon River	28.2 miles	9

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 Covill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5150278	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 659211. 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.