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.
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.
John P. Furber Houselisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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.
- 1946 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Hudson quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS St Paul Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS St Paul Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS St. Paul Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS St Paul Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS St. Paul Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | INNOVATION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Grove Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Noltiemeyer Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Noltiemeyer Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Riggs Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langdon | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Cottage Grove | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Basswood Grove | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Saint Paul Park | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| Newport | 6.5 miles | 28 | |
| Afton | 6.7 miles | 18 | |
| Woodbury | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Point Douglas | 7.1 miles | 18 |
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 Q122565426 | The 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.












