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Eldes Corner, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Midway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55810. The Survey maps it on the Esko quadrangle.

Eldes Corner within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Eldes Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 were 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 maintenance126
Debris and open burning87
Equipment and vehicle use41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2
Natural1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eldes Corner: 3 producers. All of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thompson Twp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tompson Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldes Corner in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEldes Corner$1,000A 30 foot section of a white pine tree fell and caused damage to a duck enclosure. No duck injuries were reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEldes Corner-This was a Minnesota Department of Transportation weather station on Interstate 35 at Thompson Hill. The station is MM248.
August 2011HailEldes Corner-Hail fell around the intersection of Midway and Stark Roads.
June 2014HailEldes Corner-no account filed
May 2012HailEldes Corner-no account filed
August 2011HailEldes Corner-no account filed
August 2011HailEldes Corner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Smithville3.4 miles20
Fond du Lac3.5 miles9
Proctor3.9 miles20
Gary4.0 miles20
Morgan Park4.0 miles20
Riverside4.0 miles20
Zenith Terrace4.2 miles20
Steelton4.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661198. 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.