Twig Station, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Grand Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. The Survey maps it on the Twig quadrangle.

Twig Station within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Twig quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Twig Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	65
Railroad operations and maintenance	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	4
Fireworks	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2016	Debris and open burning	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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Twig Station: 5 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
Amborn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Arrowhead Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
La France Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Munger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Schubitzke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Twig	1.5 miles	10
Bartlett	2.4 miles	10
Harnell Park	2.7 miles	10
Four Corners	3.9 miles	9
Simar	4.5 miles	9
Munger	5.3 miles	9
Saginaw	5.4 miles	8
Five Corners	6.0 miles	9

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 Q122558096

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 662684. 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.