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Woodlyn Court, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in St. Francis City. It lies in ZIP code area 55070. The Survey maps it on the Saint Francis quadrangle.

Woodlyn Court within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

12,939 words on this township

With the Colors from Anoka County, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Francis City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Francis City - 12,939 words.

Fires near this place

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Woodlyn Court between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony17
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saint Francis2.3 miles15
Bethel3.2 miles15
Oak Grove4.8 miles16
Coopers Corner5.0 miles12
Cedar6.6 miles16
Mort8.3 miles13
East Bethel9.1 miles13
Nowthen9.4 miles16

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 Q122542828The 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 2094590. 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.