BlockGrainwood, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prior Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55372. It lies near Martinson Island. The Survey maps it on the Prior Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Prior Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Prior Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Grainwood between 2000 and 2013, burning about 327 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LOUISVILLE SWAMP |
| 11 May 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 126TH STREET |
| 5 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 180 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RICE LAKE |
| 23 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | EAGLE |
| 2 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 144 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2010 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RICE 3 |
| 22 March 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RICE 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grainwood: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Halite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cargill Salt Plant | Halite | Producer | ||
| Prior Lake Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highway Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jordan Quartz Pit & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Malkerson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Shiely Savage Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prior Lake | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Lake | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Glendale | 3.8 miles | 25 | |
| Credit River | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Barden | 5.0 miles | 25 | |
| Marystown | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lydia | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Savage | 6.7 miles | 26 |
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 Q122544312 | 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 644320. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.