BlockBloomington Ferry, Minnesota
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bloomington City. It lies in ZIP code area 55438. It stands on Purgatory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eden Prairie quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Eden Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Eden Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
287 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bloomington City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Bloomington City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
57 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Bloomington Ferry between 1996 and 2020, burning about 637 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LOUISVILLE SWAMP |
| 13 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | WILKIE 1 |
| 13 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BLACK DOG 9 |
| 1 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BLACKDOG 1 |
| 6 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | WILKIE FOOT BRIDGE |
| 6 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LYNDALE 2 |
| 6 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LYNDALE 1 |
| 6 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LYNDALE 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bloomington Ferry: 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cargill Salt Plant | Halite | Producer | ||
| Hedberg Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kraemer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Burnsville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Shiely Savage Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| W G Pearson Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atwood | 4.5 miles | 26 | |
| Rowland | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Oxboro | 5.2 miles | 26 | |
| Bloomington | 5.4 miles | 26 | |
| Eden Prairie | 5.9 miles | 25 | |
| Edina | 6.5 miles | 26 | |
| Richfield | 7.9 miles | 26 | |
| Oak Terrace | 8.1 miles | 25 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122546401 | 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 640280. 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.