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Conception, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55945. The Survey maps it on the Wabasha South quadrangle.

Conception within Wabasha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

689 words on this township

History of Wabasha County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. : Gathered from Matter Furnished by Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township, and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Also a History of Winona County, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Highland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Highland Township - 689 words.

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 Conception between 1993 and 2017, burning about 31 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1993Recreation and ceremony12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 1993Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conception in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2021HailConception$150,000Hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter fell near Conception.
June 2021HailConception$35,000Hail up to two inches in diameter fell west of Kellogg.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Conception$15,000A small, short-lived tornado damaged some corn, removed the tops off of two silos, blew in garage doors and moved tires off a sileage pile.
June 2020Funnel CloudConception-Two very brief funnel clouds were sighted southwest of Kellogg.
May 2013HailConception-Golf ball sized hail fell between Kellogg and Plainview.
August 2012HailConception-Nickel size hail fell four miles north-northeast of Plainview.
May 2009HailConception-Hail the size of nickels was reported.
June 2021HailConception-no account filed
May 2017HailConception-no account filed
July 2000HailConception-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindConception-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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
Theilman4.7 miles15
Dumfries5.5 miles15
Kellogg6.7 miles20
Midland Junction6.9 miles15
Plainview7.7 miles13
Wabasha9.1 miles16
Reads Landing9.6 miles16
West Albany9.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654652. 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.

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.