Croftville, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It lies in ZIP code area 55604. It stands on Devil Track River. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marais quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Croftville within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Grand Marais quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Grand Marais quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Croftville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Superior National Forest	HUMPHREY
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PILE #2
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	MILL
12 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PINCUSHION FIRE
30 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	TOWER
17 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	CROFTVILLE #2
19 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

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
Chippewa City	1.4 miles	9
Grand Marais	3.3 miles	9
Maple Hill	3.3 miles	9
Covill	6.4 miles	10
Hovland	16.9 miles	11
Lutsen	22.7 miles	11
Red Rock	30.4 miles	10
Tofte	32.5 miles	11

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 Croftville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5187501	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 655875. 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.