Pleasant Beach, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grey Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56336. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burtrum quadrangle.

Pleasant Beach within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Swanville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Burtrum quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Beach between 1992 and 2018, burning about 658 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	LOVELL L.1
6 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	143 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	LOVELL L.2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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
North Shore	1.7 miles	10
Grey Eagle	3.3 miles	10
Ward Springs	3.8 miles	8
Spaulding	6.2 miles	8
Burtrum	6.7 miles	10
Pillsbury	11.1 miles	10
Little Sauk	11.4 miles	8
Round Prairie	11.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649547. 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.