Cuba, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the North Cass unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56633. The Survey maps it on the Pike Bay quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cuba within Cass 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 Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Pike Bay quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Pike Bay quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Cuba (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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
Arson/incendiarism	68
Debris and open burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
25 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	not named
2 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SWEDE HILL
12 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SO # 2
1 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	BRIDGE
16 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Cass Lake	4.5 miles	9
Schley	5.5 miles	9
Bald Eagle Center	5.7 miles	9
Wilkinson	10.2 miles	8
Ryan Village	12.2 miles	9
Bena	16.7 miles	9
Baker	17.3 miles	10
Onigum	18.2 miles	10

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 Cuba (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19866773	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 2071406. 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.