Horton, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Straight River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56464. The Survey maps it on the Menahga quadrangle. It stands 1,414 feet above sea level.

Horton within Hubbard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Menahga quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,434 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	4
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2005	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2012	Fireworks	3.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard 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
Hubbard	4.9 miles	10
Park Rapids	7.9 miles	10
Park Estates	9.9 miles	10
Dorset	12.6 miles	9
Arago	16.9 miles	9
Deer Lane	17.0 miles	9
Nevis	17.3 miles	9
Badoura	17.9 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Horton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657858	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 654759. 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.