Elm Estates, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lindstrom City. It lies in ZIP code area 55045. The Survey maps it on the Lindstrom quadrangle.

Elm Estates within Chisago County

On record in Elm Estates

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Frank A. Larson Houselisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
Charles A. Victor Houselisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
Gustaf Anderson Houselisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Forest Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Lindstrom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Elm Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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 burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
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
18 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1997	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 2009	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lindstrom	0.4 miles	14
Center City	2.1 miles	14
Chisago City	2.2 miles	14
Croix Estates	2.3 miles	14
Bonnie Glen	3.5 miles	14
Shafer	5.7 miles	23
Kost	6.9 miles	14
Stacy	7.0 miles	13

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 Q122596862

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 2069098. 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.