Norshor Junction, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55614. It stands on Kinney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kane Lake quadrangle.

Norshor Junction within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Whyte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Kane Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Norshor Junction between 1994 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	not named
9 June 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Superior National Forest	not named
17 May 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 May 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Superior National Forest	SULLIVAN CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Darby Junction	0.6 miles	11
Jordan	0.7 miles	11
Scott Junction	3.0 miles	11
McNair	4.1 miles	11
Greenwood Junction	5.7 miles	11
Whyte	6.8 miles	11
Toimi	7.9 miles	11
Beaver Crossing	10.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122560076

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 657614. 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.