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Belvidere Mills, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Belvidere Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55066. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodhue East quadrangle.

Belvidere Mills within Goodhue 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.

In the county-history sources

1,581 words on this township

History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878; Goodhue County, Minnesota, Past and Present, published 1893 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Belvidere Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Belvidere Township - 1,581 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Belvidere Mills between 1994 and 2015, burning about 20 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 burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 April 1994Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 November 2012Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goodhue County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belvidere Mills: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Clay Bank PitsClayProducer1875
Red Wing Sewer Pipe Clay Pit No 2ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Goodhue County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvidere Mills in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBelvidere Mills-Thirty foot tall and fifty foot wide pipe and canvas cattle barn toppled at 240th Ave and 370th St. Large tree branch at same location severed and then damaged automobile. Near same location a wooden hay barn was destroyed and an old pole shed open to the North lost its roof. In addition, four trees snapped near a church and school along Co. Road 4 Blvd.

Every storm recorded in Goodhue 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
Hay Creek3.3 miles11
Bellechester5.8 miles11
Claybank6.5 miles10
Goodhue7.0 miles11
Wacouta7.5 miles16
Red Wing7.7 miles15
Wacouta Beach8.3 miles16
Frontenac9.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654597. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.