Cedar Grove, Minnesota

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eagan City. It lies in ZIP code area 55122. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul SW quadrangle.

Cedar Grove within Dakota County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 30 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.

1896 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
1951 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS St. Paul SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Saint Paul SW quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS St Paul SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1967 USGS St. Paul SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

116 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,724 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACKDOG EAST
24 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK
26 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS PONDS 3
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	IKES
17 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CLEVELAND
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLUE WATER
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Grove: 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Burnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fisher Sand & Aggregate Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kraemer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Mva Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rosemont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shakopee Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dakota 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
Nicols	1.3 miles	30
Eagan	2.3 miles	30
Burnsville	4.4 miles	26
Apple Valley	5.0 miles	12
Wescott	5.6 miles	28
Mendota	6.2 miles	28
Rosemount	6.3 miles	12
Mendota Heights	6.6 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640999. 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.