Kost, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sunrise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55056. The Survey maps it on the Lindstrom quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Kost within Chisago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Forest Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Lindstrom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Kost between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	23
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago 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
Sunrise	3.9 miles	17
Almelund	4.4 miles	14
Branch	5.0 miles	13
Oakwood Court	6.0 miles	16
North Branch	6.1 miles	16
Elm Estates	6.9 miles	14
Lindstrom	7.2 miles	14
Center City	7.3 miles	14

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 Kost	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657909	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 654781. 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.