BlockSaint Johns Landing Camp, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ogema Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55037. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monson Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Grantsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Grantsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Monson Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grantsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns Landing Camp between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,431 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TWO BEARS |
| 25 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MCANDREWS |
| 23 June 2019 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Johns Landing Camp: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C J Moses Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| St Croix River State Forest Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Union Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Q122572730 | 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 654926. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.