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East Cottage Grove, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Cottage Grove City. It lies in ZIP code area 55016. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul Park quadrangle.

East Cottage Grove within Washington County

On record in East Cottage Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of East Cottage Grove between 2012 and 2017, burning about 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 April 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeINNOVATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Cottage Grove: 4 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cottage Grove Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Noltiemeyer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Noltiemeyer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riggs Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Langdon3.3 miles18
Cottage Grove3.4 miles18
Basswood Grove4.5 miles18
Saint Paul Park5.8 miles18
Newport6.5 miles28
Afton6.7 miles18
Woodbury7.0 miles17
Point Douglas7.1 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122565426The 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 643067. 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.