BlockWest View Court, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fosston City. It lies in ZIP code area 56542. The Survey maps it on the Fosston West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fosston West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fosston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of West View Court between 2000 and 2020, burning about 435 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | SAND HILL LAKE 1 |
| 6 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | SANDHILL LAKE BALE FIRE |
| 30 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 112 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Agency | STOCK |
| 23 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | JENKINS |
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 Q122597847 | 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 2081429. 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.