Beckville, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenleaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55355. The Survey maps it on the Litchfield South quadrangle. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Beckville within Meeker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Litchfield South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beckville between 2001 and 2013, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
26 April 2001	Debris and open burning	105 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2009	Debris and open burning	113 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 November 2012	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 November 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	LITCHFIELD WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meeker 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 Beckville: 3 producers. All of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Meeker 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
Strout	1.9 miles	10
Greenleaf	4.8 miles	11
Acton	5.8 miles	8
Litchfield	6.0 miles	10
Casey	6.7 miles	10
Cedar Mills	7.3 miles	9
Rosendale	7.6 miles	8
Corvuso	7.8 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 Beckville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18169374	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 639857. 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.