Dupont, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Corcoran City. It lies in ZIP code area 55340. The Survey maps it on the Hamel quadrangle.

Dupont within Hennepin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1909 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Hamel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

7,933 words on this township

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Corcoran City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first post-office was established on section 23, P. B. Corcoran postmaster. He has held the office since it was first established, with weekly mail route from Osseo to Rockford, on Saturday. Dupont post-office, on section 19, was established in 1875. Joseph Dupont, postmaster, lias held the office since its establishment.

Passage source: History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Corcoran City - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dupont between 2000 and 2015, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	5
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 2015	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2012	Smoking	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin 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
Leighton	2.4 miles	15
Corcoran	2.7 miles	15
Burschville	2.8 miles	15
Loretto	3.4 miles	15
Medina	4.3 miles	15
Greenfield	4.9 miles	15
Lake Sarah	5.1 miles	15
Hamel	5.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654683. 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.