Tilden Junction, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grove Park-Tilden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56736. The Survey maps it on the Dugdale quadrangle.

Tilden Junction within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dugdale quadrangle1:24000
1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tilden Junction between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,305 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Other causes	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
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Glacial Ridge	PEMBINA TRAIL SNA
11 September 2012	Natural	62 acres	Glacial Ridge	GODFREY 7
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 4
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 1
9 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 2
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 3
6 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Glacial Ridge	CROOKSTON SNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tilden Junction: 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Arnold Olson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bakken Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bradshaw Gravel Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bradshaw Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crookston Cattle Co Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northern Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tilden Junction Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Dugdale	1.2 miles	8
Benoit	5.6 miles	8
Maple Bay	5.7 miles	9
Melvin	7.7 miles	8
Mentor	7.8 miles	9
Gentilly	10.4 miles	10
Harold	11.1 miles	8
Fertile	11.5 miles	8

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 Q122567220

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 654976. 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.