Garnes, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garnes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56742. The Survey maps it on the Oklee NW quadrangle.

Garnes within Red Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Grit quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Oklee NW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fosston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Garnes between 1995 and 2011, burning about 36 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 August 2003	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R257
5 May 2011	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 192
26 May 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	R191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red Lake 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
Oklee	4.8 miles	10
Roland	6.0 miles	10
Plummer	8.5 miles	10
Brooks	9.0 miles	10
Terrebonne	14.3 miles	10
Red Lake Falls	20.9 miles	10
Perault	22.6 miles	10
Delorme	23.7 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122597011

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 654718. 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.