Collegeville, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Wendel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56374. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS St Joseph quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS St. Joseph quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
178 words on this townshipHistory of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on St. Wendel Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on St. Wendel Township - 178 words.
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Collegeville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 260 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Collegeville: 1 producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Readymix Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collegeville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collegeville | - | A 14 inch diameter pine tree was blown down in Collegeville. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Collegeville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Collegeville | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Collegeville | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Collegeville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Avon | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Wendel | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Five Points | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Riverview Park | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Anna | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Jacobs Prairie | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Waite Park | 7.8 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 641398. 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.





