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Deerwood, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deerwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56732. The Survey maps it on the Karlstad quadrangle.

Deerwood within Kittson 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.

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Deerwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,440 acres in total. None started naturally. 148 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/incendiarism148
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2012Arson/incendiarism88 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,440 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY 27 FIRE
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittson 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 Deerwood: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Karlstad Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kittson 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
Karlstad4.0 miles10
Halma7.1 miles10
Enok11.0 miles11
Pelan12.1 miles10
Lake Bronson12.8 miles10
Donaldson16.2 miles11
Kennedy17.8 miles11
Chatham (historical)20.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654529. 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.