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Legionville, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the First Assessment unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Merrifield quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Legionville within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Legionville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning107
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing 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 Legionville: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
East of Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 18Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 19Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 20Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crow Wing 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
Merrifield1.9 miles15
Lake Hubert4.9 miles11
Brainerd6.2 miles15
Pequot Terrace6.9 miles11
Nisswa6.9 miles11
Meadow View Manor7.2 miles15
Loerch7.4 miles14
Woodrow7.8 miles14

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 LegionvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988761The 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 646585. 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.