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Illgen City, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Beaver Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55614. It stands on Crystal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Illgen City quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Illgen City within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Illgen City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2007Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Illgen City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E.W. Davis WorksIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Illgen City in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013HailIllgen City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kennedy Landing3.0 miles11
Bell Harbor4.0 miles11
Little Marais Postoffice4.4 miles11
Silver Bay5.1 miles11
Finland5.6 miles11
Little Marais6.1 miles11
Lax Lake6.3 miles11
East Beaver Bay7.4 miles11

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 Illgen CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5999114The 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 654765. 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.

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.