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Stewart, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake No. 2 unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. The Survey maps it on the Two Harbors quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Stewart within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Stewart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance52
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stewart: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Big Noise Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Drummond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stewart in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStewart-Power lines were knocked down north of Two Harbors along Forest Highway 15.
June 2018Flash FloodStewart-Old Drummond Road was washed out at the Stewart River between Big Rock Road and Holm Road.
June 2022HailStewart-no account filed
August 2018HailStewart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
York1.7 miles9
Waldo2.6 miles11
Alger3.2 miles9
Lauren5.6 miles9
Silver Creek5.8 miles11
Two Harbors5.9 miles11
Highland7.0 miles9
Larsmont8.8 miles5

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 StewartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7615695The 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 658477. 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.

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.