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Harliss, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Red Wing City. It lies in ZIP code area 55066. The Survey maps it on the Welch quadrangle.

Harliss within Goodhue County

On record in Harliss

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

10 surveys from 15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Red Wing city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878 - Red Wing City

First Execution Of The Death Penalty

On the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1855, the first execution of the death penalty was carried into effect by the hanging of a Dakota Indian named Yuhozee, for the murder of a German woman. The circumstances of the murder are thus stated: The murdered woman was traveling with others above Shakopee, when Yuhozee and some other Indians met them.

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In the county-history sources

82,091 words on this township

History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878; Goodhue County, Minnesota, Past and Present, published 1893; History of Goodhue County, Minnesota, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Red Wing City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Red Wing City - 82,091 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harliss between 1994 and 1997, burning about 12 acres 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
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
18 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 October 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goodhue 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 Harliss: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Luhman Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bryan Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Railroad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Red Wing Sand & Gravel Co. MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trenton Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Goodhue 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
Eggleston2.7 miles15
Stroms3.3 miles15
Welch4.5 miles15
Vasa6.5 miles15
Red Wing6.6 miles15
Hay Creek8.6 miles11
Claybank9.8 miles10
White Rock10.5 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122555682The 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 654743. 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.