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Georgeville, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crow River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56312. The Survey maps it on the Georgeville quadrangle.

Georgeville within Stearns County

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.

In the county-history sources

1,111 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Crow River Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Crow River Township - 1,111 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Georgeville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 495 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2020Arson/incendiarism130 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2000Smoking5.0 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictBURBANK
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use264 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictREGAL MEADOW
11 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictREGAL MEADOW DEUCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Georgeville: 1 producer. 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
Olson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgeville in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 7 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 2013Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-A 52 knot wind gust was measured by the Minnesota Department of Transportation wind sensor along Highway 55, near Georgeville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-A Minnesota Department of Transportation Wind Sensor measured a wind gust of 62 mph at the Georgeville Site on Highway 55.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-Measured by the MNDOT Road Weather sensor along Highway 55.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-Measured on Highway 55 at milepost 98, 3 miles southeast of Belgrade, by a MNDOT sensor.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-A 69 MPH gust was recorded by a MNDOT automated weather sensor.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGeorgeville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Belgrade4.4 miles9
Lake Henry7.3 miles8
Spring Hill8.4 miles8
Elrosa9.3 miles8
Brooten11.6 miles8
Paynesville11.9 miles8
Greenwald12.5 miles8
Meire Grove14.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644086. 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.