Lindford, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1978. It lies in ZIP code area 56653. The Survey maps it on the Lindford quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Lindford within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1943 USGS Lindford quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Lindford quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lindford between 1992 and 2018, burning about 60 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 1995	Natural	9.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching 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
Loman	7.1 miles	6
Hendrickson Landing	7.9 miles	7
Wisner	9.1 miles	7
Laurel	9.2 miles	8
Littlefork	12.0 miles	7
Ben Linn Landing	12.3 miles	7
Pelland	13.4 miles	8
Grand Falls	14.7 miles	7

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 Lindford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6552468	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 654798. 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.