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Lind, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grantsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 54840. The Survey maps it on the Randall quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Lind within Burnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Lind between 1992 and 2020, burning about 715 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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 burning31
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural6
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Smoking12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRIVER ROAD CABIN
27 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lind: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rock Creek Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Croix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
William Ott Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Burnett 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
Benson3.6 miles16
Randall3.7 miles16
Branstad6.0 miles16
Grantsburg6.5 miles12
Trade River9.1 miles16
Trade Lake11.3 miles16
Alpha11.7 miles12
Four Corners11.8 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.

Wikipedia article on LindAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6551323The 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 1577704. 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.