Stanchfield Corner, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Stanchfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55080. The Survey maps it on the Braham quadrangle.

Stanchfield Corner within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Braham quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Stanchfield Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 June 1995	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	37 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti 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
Stanchfield	0.5 miles	11
Grandy	2.6 miles	11
Braham	3.6 miles	11
Andree	4.1 miles	11
Elm Park	4.4 miles	12
Springvale	6.7 miles	12
Cambridge	7.2 miles	11
Minnesota Boys Town	8.1 miles	11

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 Q122594655

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 654959. 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.