Oneota, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Duluth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55807. It stands on Keene Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle.

Oneota within St. Louis County

On record in Oneota

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Irving Schoollisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1915 USGS Superior quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS West Duluth quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS West Duluth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Oneota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	43
Debris and open burning	28
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
5 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oneota: 3 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mailing Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Arrowhead Blacktop Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Superior Grinding Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
West Duluth	1.3 miles	20
Bayview	1.6 miles	20
Missabe Junction	2.2 miles	15
Zenith Terrace	2.4 miles	20
Proctor	3.2 miles	20
Riverside	3.2 miles	20
Saint Paul Church	3.6 miles	15
Smithville	4.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662106. 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.