BlockManey, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Alborn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55702. The Survey maps it on the Alborn quadrangle. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Alborn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Maney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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 Maney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22073613 | 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 661855. 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.