Stanley, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Isanti Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Stanley 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 Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Stanley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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
Minnesota Boys Town	1.3 miles	11
Bodum	3.4 miles	11
Blomford	3.5 miles	11
Cambridge	4.1 miles	11
Edgewood	4.3 miles	11
Spring Lake	4.6 miles	12
Weber	5.4 miles	12
Grandy	6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Stanley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7599397	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 654960. 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.