Margie, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56658. The Survey maps it on the Margie quadrangle. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Margie within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1919 USGS Margie quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Margie quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Margie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
24 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.7 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 May 2004	Smoking	3.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 117

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Margie in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2001: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2001	Hail	Margie	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Margie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Sturgeon River Landing	8.6 miles	7
Big Falls	9.7 miles	7
Grand Falls	10.6 miles	7
Ben Linn Landing	11.1 miles	7
Gates Corner	12.1 miles	8
Gemmell	12.9 miles	9
Wildwood	14.2 miles	10
Hendrickson Landing	15.5 miles	7

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 Margie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6760365	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 647519. 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.

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.