Shephard, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Daggett Brook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Shephard quadrangle.

Shephard within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1948 USGS Lastrup quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Lastrup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Shephard quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Shephard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 875 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning	46
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
16 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Mathias	7.8 miles	13
Meadow View Manor	9.7 miles	15
Barrows	10.0 miles	18
Pine Center	10.1 miles	7
Crow Wing	11.0 miles	18
Brainerd	11.2 miles	15
Woodrow	12.1 miles	14
Lennox	12.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 651952. 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.