Independence, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in New Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. It stands on Hellwig Creek. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Independence within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 1992 and 2019, burning about 98 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2005	Natural	1.7 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Independence: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Arrowhead Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence in 1 storm report in 1999: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1999	Hail	Independence	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Burnett	5.2 miles	7
Culver	5.7 miles	7
Canyon	5.7 miles	10
Harnell Park	6.0 miles	10
Coleraine Junction	6.0 miles	7
Alborn	6.2 miles	7
Grand Lake	6.3 miles	8
Twig	6.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661532. 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.