Emmaville, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56470. The Survey maps it on the Mantrap Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Emmaville within Hubbard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Mantrap Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Emmaville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 229 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2012	Natural	16 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Agency	BLACKTOP
3 May 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	not named
20 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard 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
Deer Lane	1.8 miles	9
Dorset	7.7 miles	9
Park Estates	8.8 miles	10
Lake George	9.3 miles	8
Arago	9.7 miles	9
Nevis	10.2 miles	9
Park Rapids	10.7 miles	10
Yola	11.6 miles	9

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 Emmaville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5373404	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 654692. 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.