Gloster, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Maplewood City. It lies in ZIP code area 55109. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake West quadrangle.

Gloster within Ramsey County

On record in Gloster

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Ramsey County Poor Farm Barnlisted 1977 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1902 USGS White Bear quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1952 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS New Brighton quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gloster between 1994 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge	FORKS FIRE
7 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	RED ARROW
2 May 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2008	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	OAK CREST
23 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	SAND DUNES
4 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey 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
Gladstone	0.1 miles	28
North Saint Paul	2.9 miles	21
Little Canada	2.9 miles	22
Hazel Park	3.3 miles	17
Midvale	3.3 miles	17
Hoffmans Corner	3.4 miles	22
Gem Lake	3.9 miles	22
Vadnais Heights	4.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654725. 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.