BlockLewis Lake, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brunswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55051. The Survey maps it on the Mora South quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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 Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Mora South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
211 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Lewis Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,380 acres in total. None started naturally. 90 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 90 |
| Debris and open burning | 74 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | 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.
| Wikipedia article on Lewis Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6536774 | 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 654794. 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.