Glendale, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Leiding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. It stands on Elbow River. The Survey maps it on the Orr quadrangle.

Glendale within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Orr quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Orr quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	LABOR DAY FIRE
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2007	Natural	2.6 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

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
Orr	1.5 miles	7
Gheen	4.6 miles	9
Gheen Corner	4.7 miles	9
Cusson	4.8 miles	7
Haley	9.3 miles	11
Greaney	11.0 miles	8
Linden Grove	11.9 miles	10
Wakemup	12.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661363. 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.