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Fillmore, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fillmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55990. It stands on Curtis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wykoff quadrangle. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Fillmore within Fillmore County

On record in Fillmore

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fillmore between 1996 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1996Smoking3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fillmore: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Brehmer MineIronPast Producer
Engel MineIronPast Producer
Evers No 2 MineIronPast Producer
Fillmore County District MinesIronPast ProducerWEATHERING RESIDUAL
Holsapple MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fillmore in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2013Flash FloodFillmore$3,500,000Heavy rain produced widespread flash flooding across the eastern half of Fillmore County. Mahoney Creek north of Lanesboro quickly came out of its banks sending water over State Highway 250. The South Branch of the Root River also rose rapidly causing a campground in Lanesboro to be evacuated and destroyed about a dozen RV's. Rescues were needed east of Whalan as numerous small creeks in the area flooded. Bridges were washed out on County Highway 23 and State Highway 43 near Choice, where a family was also stranded by flood water. The state fish hatchery near Lanesboro was inundated by flood waters which killed several fish and allowed the different species of trout to swim together. Workers spent many hours repairing the tubs used to store the fish in along with scooping up and sorting the fish the survived.
July 2024Funnel CloudFillmore-Emergency management relayed a video of a funnel cloud northeast of Spring Valley.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFillmore-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred northwest of Wykoff.
June 2017HailFillmore-Walnut sized hail was reported northwest of Wykoff.
May 2013Heavy RainFillmore-The automated mesonet reporting equipment in the town of Fillmore reported 2.39 inches of rain.
June 2021HailFillmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Wykoff2.9 miles8
Freiheit Spring3.9 miles8
Washington4.2 miles9
Fountain7.0 miles8
Spring Valley7.7 miles7
Forestville7.8 miles8
Chatfield7.9 miles9
Carimona8.5 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on FillmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5448841The 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 643627. 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.