Kettle Falls, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Northwest St. Louis unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56649. It lies near Surveyors Island. The Survey maps it on the Kettle Falls quadrangle.

Kettle Falls within St. Louis County

On record in Kettle Falls

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Kettle Falls Hotellisted 1976 · 0.0 miles away
Kettle Falls Historic Districtlisted 1978 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Kettle Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Brule Narrows quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Kettle Falls quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kettle Falls between 1995 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	GOLDRUSH
5 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FOX ISLAND
27 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	LOG CAMP
25 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	MOUSE TRAP
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	LEAN 2 WF
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Voyageurs National Park	MICA BAY
12 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FISH CAMP BAY
9 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	FORTUNATE

Every fire 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
Crane Lake	18.2 miles	9
Kabetogama	21.0 miles	9
Ash Lake	24.5 miles	7
Arbutus	25.5 miles	8
Buyck	27.0 miles	7
Cusson	29.7 miles	7
Orr	32.6 miles	7
Glendale	34.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661637. 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.