River Valley, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Deer Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56742. The Survey maps it on the High Landing quadrangle.

River Valley within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS High Landing quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Grygla quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of River Valley between 1992 and 2015, burning about 1,275 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 August 2003	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R262
12 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1,150 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R261
2 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington 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
High Landing	2.5 miles	6
Erie	4.7 miles	6
Goodridge	8.6 miles	6
Mavie	11.9 miles	6
Hazel	17.7 miles	10
Challenger Court	21.5 miles	10
Basswood Court	22.2 miles	10
Greendale Manor	22.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654908. 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.