Gregory, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56345. The Survey maps it on the Little Falls East quadrangle.

Gregory within Morrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1948 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Little Falls East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Gregory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 693 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning	91
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison 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 Gregory: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mississippi River Area Clays	Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Morrison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Little Falls	2.6 miles	12
Maple Leaf Court	3.2 miles	12
Sobieski	5.5 miles	12
Vawter	6.2 miles	10
Belle Prairie	6.6 miles	13
Royalton	8.3 miles	11
Bowlus	8.7 miles	11
Camp Ripley Junction	9.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654737. 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.