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Oakwood Court, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Branch City. It lies in ZIP code area 55056. The Survey maps it on the North Branch quadrangle.

Oakwood Court within Chisago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood Court between 1992 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning55
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeHENRY
23 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2000Debris and open burning26 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago 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 Oakwood Court: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
E F Hals Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chisago 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
North Branch0.4 miles16
Branch1.7 miles13
Harris5.6 miles16
Kost6.0 miles14
Stark6.7 miles12
Sunrise7.2 miles17
Stacy7.4 miles13
Croix Estates10.1 miles14

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 Q122539902The 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 2069081. 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.