Rothman, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Birch Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55706. It lies near Bear Island. The Survey maps it on the Bear Island quadrangle.

Rothman within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1933 USGS Ely quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Ely quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Bear Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1994 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rothman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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
Recreation and ceremony	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BEAR ISLAND RIVER RD
6 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	AIKIO
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BIRCH
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BIRCH LAKE 2
10 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Superior National Forest	RIVARD ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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
Babbitt	4.1 miles	11
Robinson	7.6 miles	12
McComber	7.8 miles	12
Eagles Nest	8.7 miles	12
Burntside	9.1 miles	13
Burntside Lake	9.5 miles	10
Ridge	10.6 miles	14
Ely	10.8 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122596865

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 662299. 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.