BlockViking Land Terrace, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hallock City. It lies in ZIP code area 56728. It stands on Middle Branch Two Rivers. The Survey maps it on the Hallock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1941 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Viking Land Terrace between 1995 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 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.
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 Q122549637 | 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 2107643. 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.