BlockElbow Lake Village, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eagle View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56589. The Survey maps it on the Tulaby Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1969 USGS Tulaby Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Lake Itasca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Elbow Lake Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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 | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Agency | ELBOW LAKE |
| 16 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Agency | ANGRY |
| 15 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.7 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Agency | EDSEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elbow Lake | 0.3 miles | 10 | |
| Pine Point | 14.7 miles | 10 | |
| Ponsford | 15.1 miles | 10 | |
| White Earth | 15.8 miles | 9 | |
| Goldenrod | 17.2 miles | 9 | |
| Richwood | 18.6 miles | 10 | |
| Two Inlets | 18.9 miles | 9 | |
| Snellman | 19.2 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.
| Wikidata item Q122562869 | 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 643234. 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.