Sturgeon River Landing, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56627. It stands on Sturgeon River. The Survey maps it on the Big Falls NW quadrangle.

Sturgeon River Landing within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1919 USGS Margie quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Big Falls NW quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sturgeon River Landing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2014	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching 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
Ben Linn Landing	2.6 miles	7
Big Falls	4.5 miles	7
Grand Falls	5.1 miles	7
Hendrickson Landing	7.0 miles	7
Margie	8.6 miles	7
Gates Corner	11.5 miles	8
Wisner	12.9 miles	7
Lindford	14.8 miles	7

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 Q122561259

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 654965. 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.