BlockScott Junction, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55614. The Survey maps it on the Whyte quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Whyte 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
- 1976 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Whyte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Scott Junction between 1994 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | STONEY RIVER GRADE |
| 21 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Superior National Forest | PHANTOM LAKE FIRE |
| 24 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | not named |
| 9 June 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2014 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2014 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Superior National Forest | SULLIVAN CREEK FIRE |
| 9 November 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Greenwood Junction | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Norshor Junction | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Darby Junction | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Whyte | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| McNair | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Toimi | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Winter | 10.4 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.
| Wikidata item Q122539123 | 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 658191. 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.