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Rabey, Minnesota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Northwest Aitkin unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55752. The Survey maps it on the Rabey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rabey within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Rabey (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1996Debris and open burning23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2003Equipment and vehicle use23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin 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
Jacobson5.8 miles8
Ball Bluff6.2 miles6
Hill City11.8 miles5
Haypoint14.3 miles5
Libby15.0 miles6
Swatara17.3 miles5
Bain18.3 miles5
Balsam19.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2070920. 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.