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Burschville, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Corcoran City. It lies in ZIP code area 55357. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle.

Burschville within Hennepin County

On record in Burschville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

7,933 words on this township

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Corcoran City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Corcoran City - 7,933 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Burschville between 2000 and 2013, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Smoking15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 November 2013Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 October 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin 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 Burschville: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barthel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bursch Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Giese Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin 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
Dupont2.8 miles15
Greenfield3.3 miles15
Leighton4.2 miles15
Lake Sarah4.6 miles15
Loretto4.8 miles15
Corcoran5.1 miles15
Berning Mill5.7 miles15
Fletcher6.0 miles15

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 Q122562453The 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 640684. 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.