Tower Junction, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Breitung Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55790. The Survey maps it on the Tower quadrangle.

Tower Junction within St. Louis County

On record in Tower Junction

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Tower Fire Halllisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tower quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Tower Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 32 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	29
Recreation and ceremony	17
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4

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
8 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 Tower Junction: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North American Mine	Gold	Unknown	Gold
	Soudan Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Tower	1.0 miles	11
Soudan	1.2 miles	12
Murray	4.1 miles	12
Wahlsten	5.0 miles	13
Peyla	5.8 miles	11
Eagles Nest	8.8 miles	12
Salo Corner	10.0 miles	13
Embarrass	10.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 662663. 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.