BlockWayland, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Northwest Koochiching unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56629. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Upper Red Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wayland between 1998 and 2012, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1998 | Smoking | 28 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2012 | Natural | 10 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairland | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Frontier | 13.4 miles | 6 | |
| Border | 15.9 miles | 6 | |
| Birchdale | 15.9 miles | 7 | |
| Central | 16.0 miles | 6 | |
| Manitou | 20.6 miles | 5 | |
| Gates Corner | 20.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ben Linn Landing | 27.5 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654999. 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.