Nirvana, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nidaros Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56524. The Survey maps it on the Vining quadrangle.

Nirvana within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1912 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Vining quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Nirvana between 1992 and 2011, burning about 426 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 April 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 1992	Debris and open burning	360 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 December 2002	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 November 2011	Smoking	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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
Clitherall	2.7 miles	13
Vining	2.7 miles	13
Woodland Park	3.2 miles	13
Inglewood	6.6 miles	13
Battle Lake	7.0 miles	13
Henning	7.7 miles	9
Ottertail	10.0 miles	13
Leaf City (historical)	10.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2125215. 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.