BlockPrairie Portage, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1981. It lies near Horseshoe Island. The Survey maps it on the Ensign Lake West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1957 USGS Ensign Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Quetico quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Quetico quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Ensign Lake SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Basswood Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Ensign Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Portage between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | WOODEN LEG |
| 10 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Superior National Forest | N. BEAVER ISLAND |
| 28 August 2004 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Superior National Forest | BOOT LAKE |
| 10 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.3 acres | Superior National Forest | SNOWBANK 2 |
| 1 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | SNOWBANK ISLAND |
| 5 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | WOODEN LEG LAKE |
| 5 July 1996 | Smoking | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BEAVER ISLAND |
| 11 July 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | ENSIGN LAKE |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Center | 19.0 miles | 8 | |
| Silver Rapids | 19.6 miles | 13 | |
| Section Thirty | 20.5 miles | 13 | |
| White Iron | 20.6 miles | 13 | |
| Martin Landing | 22.3 miles | 12 | |
| Wheeler Landing | 23.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sawbill Landing | 24.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kelly Landing | 26.4 miles | 12 |
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 Q122543813 | 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 654890. 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.