BlockDonehower, Minnesota
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55987. It sits by Queens Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Pickwick quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1930 USGS La Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS La Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Pickwick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
867 words on this townshipHistory of Winona County, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Richmond Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Richmond township lies in T. 106 N. and R. 5 W. Its boundaries are, on the east and north the Mississippi river, on the south New Hartford township, and on the west Homer township. Richmond is but a fractional township at most, being cut by the Mississippi into twelve complete and seven fractional sections. It was organized May 11, 1858. The members of the first board were : Town clerk, J. M. Dodge ; chairman of supervisors, A. M. Gross ; supervisors, Amos Shay, M. Dunning ; assessor, J. M. Winn ; collector. A, C. Dunning ; constables, C. C. Willy, C. R. Howe ; justices of the peace, B. F. Davis, N. D. Gilbert. There were forty votes cast at tlie first election. The following are the names of the successive township clerks : A. O. Gross, 1858-9 ; A. S. Dunning, 1859-62; J. Donehower, 1862-3 ; J. H. Davenport, 1863-65 ; O. Cram, 1865-6 ; C. A. Leach, 1866-69 ; Levi Brown, 1869-71 ; George Eagles, 1871-73 ; Edward Mott, 1873-75 ; J. P. Nevill, 1875-78 ; C. A. Leach, 1878-81 ; J. P. Nevill, 1881-2-3. The present township board : Chairman of supervisors, Amos Shay ; supervisors, Henry Winter, Patrick Griffin ; assessor, James Donehower ; constable, A. B. Leach ; justice of the peace, J. P. Nevill.
Passage source: History of Winona County, published 1883.
was laid out in 1855 by Fredrick Cushman, John Fortune and Henry Cushman. The plat stood on N.E. i of Sec. 21, on the bank of the Mississippi river, and had an area of twenty acres. Among the old settlers in the village may be mentioned : M. Dunning, Isaac Nichols, H. Carroll, Thomas Gordon, Jacob Donehower, Andrew Mitchell and Amos Shay. John Fortune built a house m 1854, and his house was, without doubt, the first in the village. O. B. Dodge built a store devoted to general merchandise in 1855. He was soon followed by J. F. Martin, S. C. Dick and Jacob Donehower, each of whom owned a store of the same description.
Passage source: History of Winona County, published 1883.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Donehower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2023 |
| 7 May 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1826 |
| 3 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Donehower: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trempealeau Dolomite Quarry #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Trempealeau Dolomite Quarry #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Eichman Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Frank Eichman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| G Stetzer Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gibbs Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| H Ryder Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| H Ryder Sand & Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Harold Ryder Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| L Lakey Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 654675. 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.