Fire wardens' reports and maps, 1895-1910.

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Fire wardens' reports and maps, 1895-1910.

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Township fire wardens' annual reports (1895-1896) and reports of fires (1896, 1905, 1908-1910) submitted to C. C. Andrews, Chief Fire Warden, 1895-1905, and Forestry Commissioner, 1905-1911, under the 1895 Forest Preservation Act [Minn. Laws 1895 c196]. While the annual reports compile information for the entire year, the fire reports detail individual fires. Together they provide documentation of the types, size, origination, and duration of fires in the state, methods used in fighting the fires, dry or dangerous weather, response of the public to forestry law, types and extent of trees in the state, especially white and Norway pine, number of lumber camps, amount of cleared forest land, and cost of supporting fire districts. The 1896 reports are not complete, but are a sample representation selected by Andrews.

4.8 cu. ft. (21 volumes and 14 folders in 5 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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