BlockVawter, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56373. It stands on Buckman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pierz Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Pierz Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
168 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Vawter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,656 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 62 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 | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 62 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Royalton | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Genola | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Little Falls | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Buckman | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Maple Leaf Court | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pierz | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| North Prairie | 9.5 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Vawter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20710938 | 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 654984. 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.