West Point, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Spencer Brook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. It stands on Green Lake Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wyanett quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

West Point within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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 Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Dalbo quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Wyanett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. 1 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	96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
20 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 June 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti 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
Pine Brook	2.0 miles	12
Bradford	2.7 miles	12
Spencer Brook	3.7 miles	12
Wyanett	3.8 miles	12
Walbo	3.9 miles	12
Oxlip	4.0 miles	12
West Lake Francis Shores	4.4 miles	12
East Lake Francis Shores	5.1 miles	12

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 West Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7986239	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 655005. 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.