BlockPlatte, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Platte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56364. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lastrup quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1948 USGS Lastrup quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Lastrup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Lastrup quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
171 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Platte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,083 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 108 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 108 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | 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 649542. 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.