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Mort, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in East Bethel City. It lies in ZIP code area 55011. The Survey maps it on the Coon Lake Beach quadrangle.

Mort within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Mort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,449 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2020Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mort: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Anoka County Peat BogsPeatProducer

Every working recorded in Anoka 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
East Bethel3.0 miles13
Coopers Corner3.7 miles12
Linwood3.9 miles14
Coon Lake Beach3.9 miles13
Martin Lake5.0 miles12
Bethel5.3 miles15
Lake Netta5.6 miles13
Soderville5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 657484. 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.