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Cherry Grove, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55975. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Grove quadrangle. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.

Cherry Grove within Fillmore County

On record in Cherry Grove

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

5 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Grove between 1993 and 2005, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2003Smoking15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2004Debris and open burning19 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Grove: 28 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Apenhorst PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grabau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rifle Hill Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
A RamakerIronPast Producer
Barr MineIronPast Producer
Bjortomt MineIronPast Producer
D Ruesink MineIronPast Producer
Dettmer MineIronPast Producer
Evers No 1 MineIronPast Producer
Fillmore County District MinesIronPast ProducerWEATHERING RESIDUAL

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Grove in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove$45,000The public reported several trees and a couple powerlines blown down.
June 1997HailCherry Grove$8,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove$6,000A roof was damaged and tree limbs blown down by a 68 mph wind gust in Cherry Grove. Just south of town, a storage shed was destroyed and shingles were blown off a garage.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove$2,000An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Cherry Grove that blew down numerous trees.
May 2006HailCherry Grove$1,000no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove$500Tree branches were blown down near Cherry Grove.
August 2016HailCherry Grove-Quarter sized hail was reported in Cherry Grove.
September 2014HailCherry Grove-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell in Cherry Grove.
April 2013HailCherry Grove-no account filed
June 2008HailCherry Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Etna3.2 miles7
York3.9 miles7
Greenleafton4.2 miles8
Forestville5.5 miles8
Bristol7.0 miles8
Ostrander7.6 miles7
Freiheit Spring8.3 miles8
Wykoff8.3 miles8

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 Cherry GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3828662The 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 641144. 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.