Ryan Village, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the North Cass unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56626. The Survey maps it on the Portage Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Ryan Village within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Portage Lake quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Portage Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Ryan Village between 1992 and 2019, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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	24
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	NEEDLE
2 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	BUCKET
17 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SECTION 34
13 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	BENA
11 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	HUNGRY GULCH
7 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	BENA
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	OLD HOUSING
16 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	TEN LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Bena	4.5 miles	9
Schley	6.8 miles	9
Bald Eagle Center	7.5 miles	9
Federal Dam	8.9 miles	9
Cuba (historical)	12.2 miles	9
Boy River	15.9 miles	9
Cass Lake	16.8 miles	9
Brevik	19.0 miles	9

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 Ryan Village	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7384610	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 658123. 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.