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Cummingsville, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55923. The Survey maps it on the Washington quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Cummingsville within Olmsted County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cummingsville between 1997 and 2007, burning about 34 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
10 May 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cummingsville: 9 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Willey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allen MineIronPast Producer
Baker A MineIronPast Producer
Baker B MineIronPast Producer
Baker MineIronUnknown
Bernard MineIronPast Producer
D O Dar<TelloIronPast Producer
Krueger MineIronPast Producer
L Plenge MineIronPast Producer
Lowrie MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cummingsville in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
September 2010FloodCummingsville$3,550,000Flooding occurred on most of the rivers, streams, and creeks throughout the county. Water caused at least 20 road closures throughout the county, which included U.S. Highway 52 north of Oronoco as well as County Roads 105, 14, 31, 18, 5 and 133. Seven of the roads were damaged, 3 of which saw extensive damage. Two vehicles tried driving across a water covered road in Oronoco and were swept away. The people in the vehicles were rescued safely. Across the county, 81 homes incurred major damage, while 10 homes had minor damage. Of those 91 homes with damage, 50 occurred in the city of Oronoco. In the city of Eyota, the sewer system was full and many homes had water in their basements. A small subdivision in Rochester was evacuated due to rising water, while the majority of the Meadow Lakes Golf Course in southeast Rochester was underwater. The rain began the afternoon of the 22nd, with the majority falling by 6 a.m. CST on the 23rd. Rainfall amounts across the county as of 6 a.m. CST on the 23rd included 4.68 inches in Rochester, 4.54 inches near the Rochester Airport, 3.66 inches at the Maple Valley Golf Course, 3.47 inches at Dover, and 3.24 inches near Elgin.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCummingsville$80,000A large farm building was blown down southwest of Cummingsville.
September 2000HailCummingsville$25,000no account filed
September 2000HailCummingsville$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCummingsville-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred west of Chatfield.

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Predmore5.7 miles9
Marion6.7 miles9
Pleasant Grove6.7 miles9
Eyota8.0 miles9
Simpson8.6 miles10
Dover9.4 miles9
Chester10.2 miles15
Judge11.6 miles10

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 CummingsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033919The 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 654659. 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.