Rosy, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Third River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56681. The Survey maps it on the Alvwood quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

Rosy within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Rosy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Alvwood quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Alvwood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rosy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 56 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
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	not named
23 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	DUNBAR LAKE FIRE
18 May 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	DIXON LAKE FIRE
17 May 2002	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	DECKER LAKE
10 May 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	COUNTY 149
10 May 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	not named
30 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2015	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca 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
Dunbar	4.3 miles	12
Alvwood	5.4 miles	11
Squaw Lake	9.2 miles	12
Bergville	9.2 miles	11
Houpt (historical)	10.8 miles	10
Orth	12.5 miles	11
Max	13.0 miles	11
Oslund	14.5 miles	12

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 Rosy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14693020	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 658094. 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.