BlockValley Court, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Stephen City. It lies in ZIP code area 56757. The Survey maps it on the Stephen East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Argyle quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Stephen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Stephen East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Valley Court between 1997 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 62 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122543205 | 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 2108081. 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.