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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.

Collegeville within Stearns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

178 words on this township

History 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 1999

Regional 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 burning3

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
19 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 November 2020Debris and open burning260 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avon Readymix Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCollegeville-A 14 inch diameter pine tree was blown down in Collegeville.
May 2022HailCollegeville-no account filed
May 2022HailCollegeville-no account filed
July 2011HailCollegeville-no account filed
July 2011HailCollegeville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Saint Joseph3.1 miles12
Avon4.8 miles10
Saint Wendel5.0 miles8
Five Points5.5 miles12
Riverview Park7.3 miles12
Saint Anna7.5 miles8
Jacobs Prairie7.6 miles9
Waite Park7.8 miles12

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.