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Klondyke, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Irondale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56455. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle.

Klondyke within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Klondyke between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Klondyke: 92 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
Portage Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Range Redi Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Adams MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Alstead MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alstead-North Hillcrest MineManganesePast Producer1955
Arko MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Arko MineManganesePast Producer1955
Armour No.2 MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1912
Armour Number 1 MineManganesePast Producer1955
Armour Number 2 MineManganesePast Producer1955

Every working recorded in Crow Wing 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
Crosby Beach2.2 miles11
Homecroft (historical)2.4 miles14
Ironton2.5 miles11
Oreland2.6 miles11
Crosby2.8 miles11
Armour Number Two Mine3.0 miles11
Deerwood4.2 miles11
Riverton4.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654779. 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.