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Scotts Corner, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Twin Lakes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55797. The Survey maps it on the Wrenshall quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Scotts Corner within Carlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Scotts Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Scotts Corner: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carlton County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Atkinson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bush PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cherrie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ulland Bros PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotts Corner in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindScotts Corner-A power line was downed by the storm.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindScotts Corner-Over 100 trees were downed by the storm with trees stacked up on each other.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindScotts Corner-A power line was down and across the road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindScotts Corner-Numerous trees were blown down between Chub Lake and Hay Lake.
March 2025HailScotts Corner-no account filed
March 2025HailScotts Corner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Wrenshall2.8 miles8
Alford3.4 miles9
Carlton4.5 miles9
Pleasant Valley4.7 miles8
Thomson4.8 miles9
Blackhoof4.8 miles8
Otter Creek6.1 miles8
Iverson7.1 miles8

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 Scotts CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438149The 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 651808. 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.

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.