BlockOak Point, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Roseau unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56735. The Survey maps it on the Caribou quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Juneberry quadrangle1:31680
- 1932 USGS Juneberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Caribou quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Oak Point (historical) between 1995 and 2018, burning about 7,106 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 175 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 640 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120803. 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.