Hasty, Minnesota
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55320. The Survey maps it on the Silver Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Silver Creek quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,767 words on this townshipHistory of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Silver Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Hasty is a small village on the edge of Silver Creek township, on the Great Northern. It is twenty miles northwest of Buffalo and five southeast of Clearwater. It has three general stores, furniture store, sawmill, hotel, restaurant, lumber yard and shoemaker. The village is noted as a potato market, the shipments from this point being large.
Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Hasty between 1992 and 2019, burning about 345 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hasty: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berg Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hasty in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hasty | - | A pontoon was flipped and a dock sunk after very strong south winds and heavy rain moved through the area. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hasty | - | A local Minnesota Department of Transportation RWIS wind sensor measured a severe wind gust. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hasty | - | Wind gust measured at MNDOT road weather sensor on I-94 at mile marker 180. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hasty | - | Numerous three inch tree branches were downed in Section 8 of Clearwater Township. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hasty | - | Several large trees were blown down in the Hasty area. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hasty | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Hasty | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Silver Creek | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Clearwater Estates | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Clearwater | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Maple Lake | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Monticello | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Annandale | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| South Haven | 13.8 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644716. 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.









