Pomroy, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Pomroy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56688. The Survey maps it on the Pomroy quadrangle. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Pomroy within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1918 USGS Zora quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Zora quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Pomroy quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Pomroy quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pomroy between 1992 and 2017, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Chippewa National Forest	POMROY
22 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	WEST WIRT LAKE
3 June 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	not named
2 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL111
10 May 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Itasca 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
Dora Lake	6.0 miles	12
Wirt	6.2 miles	10
Oslund	11.4 miles	12
Spring Lake	13.8 miles	10
Bergville	14.5 miles	11
Max	14.5 miles	11
Squaw Lake	14.9 miles	12
Alvwood	15.8 miles	11

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 Pomroy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14693003	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 657891. 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.