Crow River, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56243. The Survey maps it on the Grove City quadrangle.

Crow River within Meeker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Grove City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crow River in 2004, burning about 8 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

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
3 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	MILLER WPA 1
3 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	MILLER LIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meeker 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 Crow River: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Messenbrink Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Meeker County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crow River in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Crow River	$30,000	A barn had part of its roof torn off. Several trees were also broken or uprooted.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Crow River	-	Several dozen trees were downed or broken. A few landed on top of houses and sheds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Crow River	-	Part of a roof was blown off a barn. Several trees at the farm were also broken or tipped over.
August 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Crow River	-	This is the continuation of the Kandiyohi tornado that moved into Meeker County near 340th Street and 210th Street Southeast. The tornado continued to the northeast damaging many trees and corn/bean fields before dissipating near Crow River. It moved across one farmstead but only produced minor damage to outbuildings. At one point, a law enforcement officer along the Meeker/Kandiyohi line reported and videod one tornado to his south and another to his east. This tornado was the one to his east.
August 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Crow River	-	This is the continuation track of the tornado that tracked across Kandiyohi County before dissipating shortly after moving into Meeker County. At one point, a law enforcement officer along the Meeker/Kandiyohi line reported and videod one tornado to his south and another to his east. This tornado was the one to his south.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Crow River	-	Several dozen trees were snapped or uprooted.
September 2005	Hail	Crow River	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Crow River via HAM radio.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Crow River	-	Trailer tipped over. Estimated windspeed.
August 2024	Hail	Crow River	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Crow River	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Crow River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meeker 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Manannah	5.7 miles	8
Grove City	6.8 miles	8
Eden Valley	11.0 miles	8
Acton	11.5 miles	8
Litchfield	13.2 miles	10
Forest City	13.9 miles	10
Rosendale	14.1 miles	8
Beckville	16.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654657. 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.