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Schroeder, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Schroeder Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55613. It stands on Cross River. The Survey maps it on the Schroeder quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Schroeder within Cook County

On record in Schroeder

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Schroeder between 1995 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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 burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 July 2009Smokingunder an acreSuperior National ForestBLUEFIN PILE
15 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National Forest7810
1 June 2002Natural5.0 acresSuperior National ForestCROSS RIVER FIRE
9 May 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National ForestTEMPERENCE RIVER
23 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSuperior National ForestSPRINGDALE
19 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSuperior National ForestMILE MARKER 40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schroeder in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSchroeder-A large tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 61 and Temperance Road.
July 2014HailSchroeder-There was also ponding of water on Highway 61 in Tofte, MN.

Every storm recorded in Cook 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Taconite Harbor (historical)2.5 miles11
Tofte3.6 miles11
Lutsen13.5 miles11
Grand Marais32.8 miles9
Chippewa City34.6 miles9
Maple Hill36.0 miles9
Croftville36.0 miles9
Covill42.4 miles10

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 SchroederAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7432892The 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 658185. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.