Fond du Lac, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55808. It stands on Mission Creek. The Survey maps it on the Esko quadrangle.

Fond du Lac within St. Louis County

On record in Fond du Lac

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 1 record

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

Bridge No. 5757listed 1998 · 0.1 miles away

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.

1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Esko quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Fond du Lac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	79
Debris and open burning	55
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fond du Lac: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Zenith Dredge Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Oliver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Thompson Twp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fond du Lac in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Flash Flood	Fond Du Lac	-	Much of Ridge Road was washed out due to St. Louis River flooding.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Fond Du Lac	-	There was two inches of standing water on Interstate 35 and Highway 33.
July 2000	Hail	Fond Du Lac	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Duluth	2.5 miles	20
Gary	2.6 miles	20
Steelton	2.9 miles	20
Eldes Corner	3.5 miles	9
Morgan Park	3.9 miles	20
Smithville	4.3 miles	20
Riverside	5.0 miles	20
Zenith Terrace	6.4 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661294. 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.

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.