Larsmont, Minnesota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lake No. 2 unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. The Survey maps it on the Two Harbors OE S quadrangle. It stands 666 feet above sea level.
On record in Larsmont
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Larsmont Schoollisted 1992 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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 Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Port Wing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Larsmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larsmont in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Larsmont | - | A tree fell on a cabin. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knife River | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Two Harbors | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Waldo | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Stewart | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| York | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Alger | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Silver Creek | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lauren | 14.4 miles | 9 |
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 Larsmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6491849 | 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 656953. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.


