BlockHoupt, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Nore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56630. The Survey maps it on the Funkley quadrangle. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Funkley quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Houpt (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 June 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Houpt (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14692653 | 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 656664. 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.