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Manitoba Junction, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Highland Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56549. It stands on Hay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dale quadrangle.

Manitoba Junction within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Manitoba Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 815 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes1

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
3 August 2014Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2009Other causes6.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNOREEN WEST WF
5 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2020Debris and open burning320 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictMNDLR-FY20-WF-HOYKENS SOUTH
4 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2008Debris and open burning46 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2020Debris and open burning28 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictFLORA LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Manitoba Junction: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Becker County Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Becker County Pit No1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bergland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ulven Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Winnipeg Junction0.7 miles7
Dale1.5 miles7
Hawley4.1 miles8
Hitterdal4.9 miles8
Muskoda9.0 miles9
Rollag11.5 miles11
Ulen11.9 miles10
Tansem16.0 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 Manitoba JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60761766The 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 654812. 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.