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Cusson, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Leiding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. The Survey maps it on the Orr quadrangle.

Cusson within St. Louis County

On record in Cusson

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Cusson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Orr3.4 miles7
Glendale4.8 miles7
Ash Lake8.9 miles7
Gheen9.4 miles9
Gheen Corner9.5 miles9
Greaney13.2 miles8
Nett Lake13.3 miles7
Haley13.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661082. 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.