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Itasca Village, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ramsey City. It lies in ZIP code area 55303. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Itasca Village within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Itasca Village (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 641 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Recreation and ceremony10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka 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 Itasca Village (historical): 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kreger Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Anoka 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
Ramsey3.1 miles16
Nowthen5.9 miles16
Anoka7.0 miles19
Thompson Heights9.8 miles20
Thompson Riverview Terrace11.0 miles20
Andover11.3 miles20
Oak Grove11.5 miles16
Constance11.6 miles16

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 Itasca Village (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119199383The 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 2723877. 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.