McComber, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Eagles Nest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55731. The Survey maps it on the Eagles Nest quadrangle. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.

McComber within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Eagles Nest quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of McComber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 961 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 7 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	11
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	MEAT
20 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	WOLF CREEK ROAD
2 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McComber: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Armstrong Bay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1923
Consolidated Vermilion and Extension Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1916
Mccomber Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1917

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Robinson	1.4 miles	12
Eagles Nest	1.8 miles	12
Burntside Lake	3.4 miles	10
Murray	6.5 miles	12
Rothman	7.8 miles	13
Burntside	7.9 miles	13
Soudan	9.4 miles	12
Tower Junction	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.

Wikipedia article on McComber	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2118792	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 661886. 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.