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Greenleafton, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55965. The Survey maps it on the Greenleafton quadrangle. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.

Greenleafton 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Greenleafton between 1993 and 2016, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
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
10 September 2003Smoking15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2016Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder 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

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Greenleafton: 19 past producers, 4 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Apenhorst PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Franks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rifle Hill Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
A RamakerIronPast Producer
Bjortomt MineIronPast Producer
D Ruesink MineIronPast Producer
Evers No 1 MineIronPast Producer
H Jones Mine ReserveIronProspect
Hendrickson MineIronPast Producer
Hewitt MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenleafton in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGreenleafton-A trained spotter measured a 64 mph wind gust in Greenleafton.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenleafton-A 58 mph wind gust was measured just south of Greenleafton.

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
Cherry Grove4.2 miles7
Forestville4.3 miles8
York4.5 miles7
Carimona6.2 miles8
Granger6.6 miles8
Etna7.4 miles7
Big Spring8.4 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 GreenleaftonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5604285The 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 644449. 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.