Goldenrod, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Savannah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56470. The Survey maps it on the Two Inlets quadrangle.

Goldenrod within Becker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Two Inlets quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Lake Itasca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

5,444 words on this township

A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Savannah Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Savannah Township - 5,444 words.

Fires near this place

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Goldenrod between 1993 and 2019, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	2
Other causes	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
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Two Inlets

Every fire recorded in Becker 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
Two Inlets	3.0 miles	9
Pine Point	11.3 miles	10
Ponsford	11.7 miles	10
Osage	12.1 miles	10
Elbow Lake	16.9 miles	10
Snellman	17.0 miles	10
Elbow Lake Village	17.2 miles	10
Wolf Lake	21.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654727. 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.