BlockCorvuso, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cedar Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56228. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Mills quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cedar Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Corvuso between 1997 and 2015, burning about 340 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 124 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | COOMBS WF |
| 29 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | BROOKFIELD WF |
| 17 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 113 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corvuso in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 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 2024 | Hail | Corvuso | - | Report provided via spotter network of quarter size hail. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corvuso | - | Several trees were blown down east of Cosmos, Minnesota. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Corvuso | - | Home siding dented, damage to shingles. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Corvuso | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 641516. 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.