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Redtop, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Idun Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56342. The Survey maps it on the Isle quadrangle.

Redtop within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Redtop between 1992 and 2019, burning about 341 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks1

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
28 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2015Smoking18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Redtop: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Diamond Gray QuarryGranitePast Producer
Pinz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redtop in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Flash FloodRedtop-Roads were damaged by high water.
May 2025HailRedtop-no account filed
September 2021HailRedtop-no account filed

Every storm 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
McGrath8.0 miles7
Malmo12.7 miles10
Dads Corner13.1 miles6
Giese15.1 miles6
Solana16.2 miles7
Glen17.9 miles10
Wealthwood18.7 miles10
Glory19.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649898. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.