Roland, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Equality Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56742. The Survey maps it on the Roland quadrangle.

Roland within Red Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1919 USGS Grit quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Roland quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fosston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Roland between 1992 and 2015, burning about 261 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2003	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	160 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	not named
3 November 2014	Debris and open burning	67 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 October 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	R260

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Garnes

Every fire recorded in Red Lake 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
Garnes	6.0 miles	10
Oklee	8.3 miles	10
Plummer	14.1 miles	10
Brooks	14.8 miles	10
Terrebonne	20.3 miles	10
Red Lake Falls	26.6 miles	10
Perault	28.6 miles	10
Delorme	29.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654911. 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.