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Ericsburg, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Rainy Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56649. The Survey maps it on the Ericsburg quadrangle. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Ericsburg within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Ericsburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 155 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 1995Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Arson/incendiarism106 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2004Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ericsburg in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEricsburg-Some tree limbs were blown down and one tree was blown down over Highway 217.
June 2000HailEricsburg-no account filed
May 1998HailEricsburg-no account filed
May 1998HailEricsburg-no account filed
August 1996HailEricsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Nakoda7.0 miles9
South International Falls7.7 miles9
Falls Junction8.0 miles10
Jameson8.2 miles10
Ray8.3 miles10
Ranier8.7 miles10
International Falls8.9 miles9
Spring Lodge Resort and Marina9.9 miles10

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 EricsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692612The 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 656165. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.