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Five Corners, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hermantown City. It lies in ZIP code area 55811. The Survey maps it on the Adolph quadrangle.

Five Corners within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning95
Railroad operations and maintenance92
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Five Corners: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
La France Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Adolph2.0 miles9
Hermantown2.2 miles15
Four Corners3.1 miles9
Simar3.4 miles9
Munger3.4 miles9
Saint Paul Church3.9 miles15
Proctor5.1 miles20
Twig Station6.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661281. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.