Colony Court, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Waseca City. It lies in ZIP code area 56093. The Survey maps it on the Waseca quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Waseca quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Waseca quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Waseca city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
The Colorado Beetle
Potato bugs were then new to the people of this country. Very few people had ever seen one prior to 1865. This year, (1868) the Mankato Record (now Review) remarked that "those striped bugs which, for the past three years have so seriously damaged the crop west of us, have already made their appear- ance in large numbers." Other papers noticed their appearance, and our paper remarlied that "we have not heard of any of these pests in this immediate vicinity, but doubt not tliey will soon visit this section." We remarked that they should be "attacked at first sight and exterminated if possible." As M'e soon after learned, this was more easily said tlian done.
In the county-history sources
35,970 words on this townshipHistory of Steele and Waseca Counties, Minnesota : an Album of History and Biography, Embracing Sketches of the Villages, Cities, and Townships : Educational, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Citizens, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Men, published 1887; Child's History of Waseca County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement in 1854 to the Close of the Year 1904, a Record of Fifty Years : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Waseca City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Waseca City - 35,970 words.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waseca | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Palmer | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wilton | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Saint Mary | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Otisco | 8.2 miles | 7 | |
| Vista | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Janesville | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Elysian | 11.5 miles | 10 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122563433 | 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 2051135. 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.






