Oshawa, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Bull Moose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56435. The Survey maps it on the Oshawa quadrangle. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.

Oshawa within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Oshawa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Oshawa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	178 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Backus	6.6 miles	9
Mildred	9.8 miles	9
Hackensack	10.8 miles	10
Pine River	13.8 miles	10
Chickamaw Beach	14.1 miles	10
Poplar	15.3 miles	10
Pontoria	16.5 miles	9
Graff	16.7 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Oshawa	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20707861	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 657687. 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.