BlockLangor, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Langor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56630. The Survey maps it on the Borden Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1919 USGS Quiring quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Borden Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Langor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 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 | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 July 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 June 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | 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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122568600 | 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 656946. 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.