Wildwood, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northome unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56661. The Survey maps it on the Wildwood quadrangle. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Wildwood within Koochiching County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1918 USGS Zora quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Zora quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wildwood quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 250 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Chippewa National Forest	POMROY
22 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 1994	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Arson/incendiarism	19 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL111
16 May 1995	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 Koochiching 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
Pinetop	7.2 miles	9
Gemmell	10.1 miles	9
Mizpah	12.8 miles	9
Margie	14.2 miles	7
Forest Grove	15.2 miles	9
Northome	16.7 miles	11
Craigville	18.8 miles	8
Big Falls	22.4 miles	7

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 Wildwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8001541	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 659009. 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.