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Oak Park, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Blaine City. It lies in ZIP code area 55434. The Survey maps it on the Coon Rapids quadrangle.

Oak Park within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Oak Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,052 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Other causesunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder 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 Oak Park: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

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
Northdale1.1 miles20
Blaine1.7 miles19
Coon Creek2.2 miles20
Johnsville2.6 miles19
Coon Rapids3.5 miles21
Thompson Riverview Terrace3.6 miles20
Thompson Heights4.0 miles20
Spring Lake Park4.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 648843. 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.