Rauch, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. It stands on Willow River. The Survey maps it on the Rauch quadrangle. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Rauch within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Rauch quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Rauch between 1992 and 2018, burning about 71 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
3 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2003	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Bois Forte Tribe	OLIKALA
7 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Bois Forte Tribe	DEERHORN
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 May 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Silverdale

Every fire recorded in Koochiching 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
Silverdale	2.7 miles	8
Craigville	25.1 miles	8
Ray	31.4 miles	10
Wisner	37.0 miles	7
Littlefork	37.3 miles	7
Ericsburg	37.8 miles	8
Grand Falls	38.1 miles	7
Big Falls	38.5 miles	7

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 Rauch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7296103	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 654898. 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.