BlockFarming, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Farming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56307. The Survey maps it on the Farming quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Farming quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
611 words on this townshipHistory of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Farming Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Farming is situated not far from the geographical center of the county, and embraces townships 124 north, range 31 west. The surface is undulating, and in some places hilly. The Sauk river crosses the. southwest corner, running in a southeasterly direction. There are a number of small lakes, the largest of which are the Big Rice Lakes in the eastern part.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
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 Farming Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Farming in 2015, burning about 320 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 320 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farming in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farming | $50,000 | Damage was reported to an under construction home along 300th Street south of Albany, Minnesota. In addition, several trees were also uprooted near the area. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Farming | - | A storm chaser reported a brief tornado, and so a storm survey was conducted. The tornado tracked mostly across fields, but it did damage about two dozen trees, some of which were knocked over. The tornado was not always strong enough to produce corn and tree damage, but it did so occasionally along its path. The storm chaser took drone video a few days later, also revealing the tornado path. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Farming | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Farming | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Farming | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Martin | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Richmond | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Roscoe | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Albany | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Cold Spring | 9.9 miles | 9 | |
| Avon | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Jacobs Prairie | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Paynesville | 11.1 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 643569. 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.
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.