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Dunwoody Junction, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Hibbing City. It lies in ZIP code area 55746. The Survey maps it on the Buhl quadrangle.

Dunwoody Junction within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

492 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Dunwoody Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,327 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 328 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/incendiarism328
Debris and open burning68
Equipment and vehicle use34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 203 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 203 workings within 5 miles of Dunwoody Junction: 154 past producers, 28 producers, 20 prospects, 1 unknown. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Albany MineIron, Water, Free, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, AluminumPast Producer1903
Billings MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1919
Bruce MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Silica, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1927
Dunwoody MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
Fraser MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, ManganesePast Producer1928
Hibbing Taconite MineIron, SilicaProducer1976
Hibtac Pit & MillGraniteProducer
Niagra No.1 Reserve St-11Iron, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Aluminum, ManganeseProspect
NilesAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProducer1913, 1942
North Eddy MineIron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, AluminumPast Producer1902

Every working 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
Mitchell1.5 miles14
Kitzville1.6 miles14
Saint Clair Junction1.8 miles13
Redore1.8 miles14
Wilpen2.2 miles13
Chisholm2.7 miles14
Brooklyn3.0 miles14
Ruby Junction3.0 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122554076The 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 661153. 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.