Roberts, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Western Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56537. The Survey maps it on the Orwell Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Roberts within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1910 USGS Wendell quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS Wendell quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Orwell Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Roberts (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Firearms and explosives use	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
28 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2012	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	RIDGEWAY GUN RANGE
28 May 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	LIGHTINING LAKE
3 April 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2000	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	NEUMANN
29 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	RIDGEWAY(GUN RANGE)
28 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	143 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	GRADY MANN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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
Western	2.1 miles	9
Squier	5.7 miles	9
French	7.6 miles	10
River Bluff Estates	7.7 miles	11
Fergus Falls	8.7 miles	11
Parkdale	9.2 miles	9
Lakeview Estates	10.5 miles	11
Carlisle	13.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2119795. 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.