BlockJessie Lake, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Lake Jessie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56637. The Survey maps it on the Jessie Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,378 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Jessie Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Jessie Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
42 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Jessie Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None 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 | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | JESSIE LAKE |
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | SWAMP FIRE |
| 20 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.1 acres | Chippewa National Forest | BONES |
| 26 June 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | MAC |
| 15 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | JESSE LAKE |
| 4 May 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Chippewa National Forest | RILEY |
| 4 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | DEADMANS CURVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessie Lake in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie Lake | $10,000 | Photos and video were received of damage along the shore of Jessie Lake. A dock was overturned along with a boat lift. A pontoon boat that was on the boat lift was also overturned. |
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 Jessie Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14692667 | 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 656786. 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.
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.