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Golden Hill, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rochester City. It lies in ZIP code area 55902. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Simpson quadrangle.

Golden Hill within Olmsted County

On record in Golden Hill

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

51,537 words on this township

History of Olmsted County, Minnesota, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rochester City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rochester City - 51,537 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Golden Hill in 2000, burning under an acre 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
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
3 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Golden Hill: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Maywood Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Q & A Club MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quarve #63 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarve & Anderson Club MSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rochester Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stewartville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
T H 82 South QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Olmsted 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
Oak Terrace Estates2.2 miles18
Rochester2.3 miles18
Rocky Creek Estates4.7 miles18
Simpson5.4 miles10
Judge6.2 miles10
Hallmark Terrace6.4 miles18
Zumbro Ridge Estates6.4 miles18
Chester6.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644199. 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.