Fort Saint Charles, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Angle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56711. It lies near Magnusons Island. The Survey maps it on the Flag Island quadrangle.

Fort Saint Charles within Lake of the Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1918 USGS Oak Island quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Kenora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Flag Island quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Oak Island quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fort Saint Charles in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Angle Inlet

Every fire recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Saint Charles: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Nw Angle Feldspar Mine	Feldspar	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake of the Woods 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
Penasse	1.2 miles	6
Angle Inlet	4.5 miles	5
Long Point	26.6 miles	7
Arnesén	28.3 miles	9
Birch Beach	28.4 miles	7
Wheelers Point	39.2 miles	7
Hackett	40.2 miles	7
Williams	41.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654709. 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.