BlockSpring Lake, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Lake Jessie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56637. It stands on Spring Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | JESSIE LAKE |
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | SWAMP FIRE |
| 15 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | JESSE LAKE |
| 29 May 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | NOMA CAMP |
| 27 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | BEAVER |
| 20 May 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | POWER LINE |
| 18 May 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | SPRING LAKE |
| 14 May 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | BOGGY LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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.
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 Spring Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7580611 | 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 658416. 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.
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.