Forest Grove, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northome unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56660. The Survey maps it on the Mizpah quadrangle. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.

Forest Grove within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1919 USGS Gemmell quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Mizpah quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Forest Grove between 1993 and 2017, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	15
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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
30 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mizpah	3.9 miles	9
Gemmell	5.7 miles	9
Northome	7.6 miles	11
Pinetop	8.4 miles	9
Wildwood	15.2 miles	10
Margie	17.5 miles	7
Gates Corner	18.1 miles	8
Sturgeon River Landing	24.5 miles	7

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 Forest Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8564569	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 656295. 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.