Assumption, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55338. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Assumption within Sibley 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Belle Plaine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Assumption between 2003 and 2016, burning about 278 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 July 2006	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MUD LAKE
30 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JESSENLAND
19 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	REDHEAD
14 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	REDHEAD
15 December 2006	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MUD LAKE 2
20 October 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	BENTON TOWNSHIP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Green Isle

Every fire recorded in Sibley 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
Green Isle	6.4 miles	11
Jessenland	8.2 miles	11
Allansons Park	11.1 miles	11
Henderson	11.1 miles	11
Sibley Estates East	11.1 miles	11
Arlington	11.6 miles	11
New Rome	14.7 miles	11
Rush River	17.5 miles	9

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 Assumption	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692519	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 639488. 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.