BlockCresson, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56164. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkton SW quadrangle. It stands 1,673 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Elkton SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Brookings quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
202 words on this townshipAn Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Troy Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Troy Township - 202 words.
Fires near this place
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Cresson between 2003 and 2018, burning about 296 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LAKE |
| 6 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VANDYKE BEANFEILD |
| 31 October 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 228 471 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cresson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5184514 | 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 654655. 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.