BlockLaBelle, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56554. The Survey maps it on the Lake Park quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Lake Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Lake Park township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Reminiscence Of The Cook Family Murder
There were two families by the name of Small and Cook, who had formerly been employed by the i^overnment at ^^'hite Earth, who had moved into the vicinity of Audubon and taken up claims. Sometime after the shooting of JMr. Carlson, the Cook family were all murdered in the night, their bodies thrown into the cellar, the house set on fire and all consumed.
In the county-history sources
11,849 words on this townshipA Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Lake Park Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Lake Park Township - 11,849 words.
Fires near this place
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of LaBelle between 1995 and 2020, burning about 670 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654782. 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.