Scranton, Minnesota

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 within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Delvic Buildinglisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• East Howard Street Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.4 miles away
• Emmett Butler Houselisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• Mitchell-Tappan Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• Hibbing City Halllisted 1981 · 0.6 miles away
• Androy Hotellisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
• Sons of Italy Halllisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away
• Hibbing High Schoollisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Andrew G. Anderson Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1951 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Scranton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,083 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 305 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hibbing
• Kerr
• Leetonia
• Mahoning
• Brooklyn
• Kitzville

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 190 workings within 5 miles of Scranton: 158 past producers, 15 producers, 15 prospects, 2 plants. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662397. 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.