BlockPalo, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55705. The Survey maps it on the Palo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1951 USGS Palo quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
77 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Palo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 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 662129. 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.