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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.

Larsmont within Lake County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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

91 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance27
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
9 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLarsmont-A tree fell on a cabin.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Knife River2.7 miles10
Two Harbors5.0 miles11
Waldo6.5 miles11
Stewart8.8 miles11
York10.4 miles9
Alger11.9 miles9
Silver Creek12.0 miles11
Lauren14.4 miles9

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 LarsmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6491849The 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.