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Lake Sarah, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Greenfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 55373. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle.

Lake Sarah within Hennepin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lake Sarah between 2000 and 2017, burning about 218 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2015Debris and open burning50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Smoking15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Sarah: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Delano Granite Works PlantGraniteProducer
Bursch Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Giese Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin 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
Greenfield2.2 miles15
Loretto3.1 miles15
Independence3.3 miles15
Leighton3.7 miles15
Armstrong4.2 miles15
Burschville4.6 miles15
Maple Plain4.8 miles15
Dupont5.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 646390. 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.