Childs, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Campbell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56583. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Childs within Wilkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

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
Tenney	4.5 miles	8
Campbell	7.2 miles	8
Doran	8.6 miles	8
Nashua	12.2 miles	8
Breckenridge	14.0 miles	11
Everdell	15.5 miles	11
Foxhome	18.8 miles	11
Brushvale	21.7 miles	11

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 Childs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5098604	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 654642. 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.