Homecroft, Minnesota

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.

• 1915 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1918 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Riverton quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Homecroft (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 316 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Armour Number Two Mine
• Crosby
• Crosby Beach
• Ironton
• Klondyke
• Trommald

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 129 workings within 5 miles of Homecroft (historical): 114 past producers, 9 prospects, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2071695. 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.