Whyte, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55614. The Survey maps it on the Whyte quadrangle.

Whyte within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Whyte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Whyte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Whyte between 1992 and 2008, burning about 43 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
14 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	STONEY RIVER GRADE
22 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	not named
21 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PHANTOM LAKE FIRE
27 May 2002	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Superior National Forest	KATHERINE LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whyte: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vanadium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Duluth Gabbro	Vanadium, Titanium	Occurrence	1870

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Greenwood Junction	1.2 miles	11
Scott Junction	3.9 miles	11
Jordan	6.3 miles	11
Winter	6.5 miles	12
Norshor Junction	6.8 miles	11
Darby Junction	7.4 miles	11
Jay See Landing	7.9 miles	12
McNair	10.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 658999. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.