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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.

Hasty within Wright County

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.

In the county-history sources

1,767 words on this township

History 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.

Read the whole chapter on Silver Creek Township.

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Berg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHasty-A pontoon was flipped and a dock sunk after very strong south winds and heavy rain moved through the area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHasty-A local Minnesota Department of Transportation RWIS wind sensor measured a severe wind gust.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHasty-Wind gust measured at MNDOT road weather sensor on I-94 at mile marker 180.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHasty-Numerous three inch tree branches were downed in Section 8 of Clearwater Township.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHasty-Several large trees were blown down in the Hasty area.
July 2019HailHasty-no account filed
June 2010HailHasty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Enfield2.4 miles15
Silver Creek3.9 miles15
Clearwater Estates4.6 miles11
Clearwater5.2 miles11
Maple Lake9.9 miles10
Monticello10.5 miles16
Annandale11.0 miles10
South Haven13.8 miles10

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.