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Edgewood, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Edgewood within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti 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
Bodum1.7 miles11
Cambridge2.5 miles11
Minnesota Boys Town3.2 miles11
Isanti3.3 miles12
Stanley4.3 miles11
Blomford5.3 miles11
East Lake Francis Shores5.4 miles12
Isanti Estates5.6 miles12

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 EdgewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5337863The 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 643172. 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.