BlockManitou Junction, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Crystal Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55603. The Survey maps it on the Isabella quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Isabella quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Isabella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Manitou Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Superior National Forest | HIGHWAY 1 |
| 21 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | DUMBBELL LAKE |
| 10 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | DIVIDE LAKE |
| 8 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | MANITOU |
| 18 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | MANITOU RIDGE |
| 11 August 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | DIVIDE LAKE |
| 5 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Superior National Forest | BEAVER DAM |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baptism Crossing | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Murphy City | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Isabella | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Kelly Landing | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Cramer | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Maple | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sawbill Landing | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Finland | 10.6 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122589642 | 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 657298. 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.