High Landing, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Highlanding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56725. The Survey maps it on the High Landing quadrangle.

High Landing within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS High Landing quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Grygla quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of High Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,252 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 May 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R262
12 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1,150 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R261
29 April 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 October 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	R268

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Landing in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	High Landing	-	Trees down with diameters of two feet.

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
River Valley	2.5 miles	6
Erie	4.7 miles	6
Goodridge	6.5 miles	6
Mavie	9.5 miles	6
Hazel	16.4 miles	10
Challenger Court	19.7 miles	10
Basswood Court	20.3 miles	10
Greendale Manor	20.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654754. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.