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Granger, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55939. The Survey maps it on the Greenleafton quadrangle. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Granger within Fillmore 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Granger between 1994 and 2018, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Natural1

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 July 2016Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2018Debris and open burning45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa 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 Granger: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Eckerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eckerman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reicks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Winekoff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granger in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGranger$50,000An open air, metal outbuilding was destroyed north of Granger.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGranger$1,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGranger-Large areas of corn were blown down just northeast of Granger along 275th Avenue between State Highway 44 and County Road 30.

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
Bristol3.3 miles8
Big Spring6.4 miles8
Greenleafton6.6 miles8
York7.2 miles7
Harmony7.7 miles8
Hutton9.3 miles8
Cherry Grove9.9 miles7
Forestville10.5 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 GrangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5595717The 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 644345. 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.