Hoffmans Corner, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in White Bear Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55110. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake West quadrangle.

Hoffmans Corner within Ramsey County

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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hoffmans Corner between 1994 and 2015, burning about 104 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 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
29 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	25 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

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
Gem Lake	0.5 miles	22
Lake Shore Park	1.8 miles	22
Vadnais Heights	2.3 miles	22
Bellaire	2.4 miles	21
White Bear Lake	2.6 miles	22
North Saint Paul	3.4 miles	21
Little Canada	3.4 miles	22
Gloster	3.4 miles	22

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 Q122569851

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 645057. 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.