BlockFrontier, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northwest Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56629. It stands on Whitefish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Border quadrangle. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Border quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Baudette quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Frontier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 97 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Frontier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14692621 | 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 654716. 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.