Maple Hill, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the West Cook unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55604. It stands on Elbow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marais quadrangle.

Maple Hill within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Grand Marais quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Grand Marais quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Maple Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	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
15 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	LITTLE DEVIL
8 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Superior National Forest	HUMPHREY
31 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	AIRPORT
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PILE #2
27 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	not named
26 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	ELBOW FIRE
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	MILL
14 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	MERIDIAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook 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
Chippewa City	3.3 miles	9
Croftville	3.3 miles	9
Grand Marais	4.2 miles	9
Covill	7.7 miles	10
Hovland	17.8 miles	11
Lutsen	22.5 miles	11
Red Rock	31.0 miles	10
Tofte	32.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 657305. 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.