Town Lake Estates, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Frazee City. It lies in ZIP code area 56544. The Survey maps it on the Frazee quadrangle.

Town Lake Estates within Becker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1915 USGS Perham quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Frazee quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Town Lake Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 374 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	WIRTH
15 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Frazee

Every fire recorded in Becker 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
Frazee	0.0 miles	12
Rochert	9.1 miles	11
Detroit Lakes	9.8 miles	10
Shoreham	10.7 miles	11
Bucks Mill	11.4 miles	16
Evergreen	13.4 miles	10
Richards	13.5 miles	11
Lake Eunice	14.3 miles	16

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 Q122544551

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 2108641. 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.