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Pine Ridge Court, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Becker City. It lies in ZIP code area 55308. The Survey maps it on the Becker quadrangle.

Pine Ridge Court within Sherburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Pine Ridge Court between 1992 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning58
Equipment and vehicle use26
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use13 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherburne 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 Pine Ridge 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
Berg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sherburne 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
Becker0.5 miles16
Salida3.9 miles16
Clear Lake7.6 miles16
Orrock7.8 miles14
Big Lake7.9 miles13
Big Lake Estates8.2 miles13
Briggs Lake8.5 miles10
Santiago10.1 miles10

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 Q122598592The 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 2069519. 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.