Tansem, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Tansem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56549. The Survey maps it on the Rollag quadrangle.

Tansem within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1914 USGS Pelican Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Pelican Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Rollag quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tansem between 1994 and 2015, burning about 410 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	JULESRUD
22 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District	ROLLOG SOUTH
8 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	315 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District	HAUGVEDT WPA
16 November 1994	Arson/incendiarism	55 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Rollag

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tansem: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clay County Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hollands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mallinger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelson Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ness Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Rollag	4.5 miles	11
Barnesville	9.9 miles	9
Downer	14.4 miles	9
Hawley	14.8 miles	8
Winnipeg Junction	15.2 miles	7
Muskoda	15.7 miles	9
Dale	15.9 miles	7
Manitoba Junction	16.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Tansem	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60761759	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 654972. 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.