Suomi, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Deer Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56636. The Survey maps it on the Little Bowstring Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Suomi within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Little Bowstring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Pokegama Lake quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Little Bowstring Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Suomi between 1992 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	FAWN LAKE
18 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	ISLAND LAKE
7 May 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SUOMI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca 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
Bowstring	5.1 miles	9
Alder	5.8 miles	10
Marcell	8.0 miles	10
Talmoon	8.2 miles	9
Jessie Lake	9.1 miles	9
Deer River	10.7 miles	9
Zemple	11.3 miles	9
Spring Lake	12.9 miles	10

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 Suomi	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14693077	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 658549. 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.