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Secluded Acres, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Bemidji City. It lies in ZIP code area 56601. The Survey maps it on the Peterson Lake quadrangle.

Secluded Acres within Beltrami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Secluded Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 burning118
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Secluded Acres: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Beltrami County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Bemidji Blacktop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kelly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ray Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thorson Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thorson Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitting Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Beltrami 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
Birchmont1.7 miles11
Woodland Park2.8 miles11
Bemidji4.0 miles9
Lavinia4.1 miles11
Werner6.1 miles10
Norway Park6.4 miles10
Wilton6.4 miles11
Scribner6.7 miles11

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 Q122553235The 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 2107132. 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.