Lester Park, Minnesota

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55804. It stands on Amity Creek. The Survey maps it on the Duluth quadrangle.

Lester Park within St. Louis County

On record in Lester Park

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Lester River Bridge-Bridge No. 5772listed 2002 · 0.6 miles away
US Fisheries Station, Duluthlisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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.

1895 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Lester Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
12 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lester Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Arrowhead Blacktop Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hunters Park	2.9 miles	17
Woodland	3.4 miles	17
Lakewood	3.5 miles	11
Arnold	4.8 miles	15
Duluth	5.9 miles	17
Clifton	6.1 miles	10
Rice Lake	6.3 miles	15
Duluth Heights	6.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661709. 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.