Cramer, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lake No. 1 unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55603. The Survey maps it on the Cramer quadrangle. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Cramer within Lake County

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.

1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Cramer quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cramer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cramer between 1995 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
8 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	NINE MILE LAKE
5 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	THUNDERBIRD LAKE
7 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	NINEMILE CAMPGROUND
31 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 June 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 December 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	9 MILE ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Cramer: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cramer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Maple	5.8 miles	11
Little Marais	8.1 miles	11
Manitou Junction	9.4 miles	12
Little Marais Postoffice	9.4 miles	11
Bell Harbor	9.9 miles	11
Kennedy Landing	10.7 miles	11
Finland	11.5 miles	11
Murphy City	12.5 miles	12

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 Cramer	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5181836	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 655850. 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.