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Little Marais, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Lake No. 1 unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55614. It stands on Little Marais River. The Survey maps it on the Little Marais quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Little Marais within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Little Marais between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Little Marais: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Sodium, Calcium. 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
Lake and Cook County AnorthositeTitanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Sodium, CalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Marais in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
June 2024Flash FloodLittle Marais-Flooding and debris across Minnesota Highway 61 led to multiple closures between Outer Drive in Silver Bay and Happy Acres Drive in Lutsen.
June 2024Flash FloodLittle Marais-Water was over Highway 61 with the road being closed as a result.
June 2011Heavy RainLittle Marais-Nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in one and a half hours.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLittle Marais-Numerous trees were blown down near Nine Mile Lake.
July 2011HailLittle Marais-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLittle Marais-no account filed

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
Little Marais Postoffice1.7 miles11
Bell Harbor2.1 miles11
Kennedy Landing3.1 miles11
Maple3.9 miles11
Illgen City6.1 miles11
Finland7.4 miles11
Cramer8.1 miles11
Silver Bay11.2 miles11

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 Little MaraisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6650847The 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 646849. 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.

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.