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Kingsley Corner, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Quincy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55972. The Survey maps it on the Elba quadrangle.

Kingsley Corner within Olmsted County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kingsley Corner between 1992 and 2018, burning about 15 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
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted 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 Kingsley Corner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Becker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Olmsted 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
Dover7.3 miles9
Viola8.2 miles15
Eyota8.7 miles9
Chester13.2 miles15
Potsdam13.3 miles15
Predmore14.9 miles9
Ringe15.2 miles18
Marion15.5 miles9

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 Q122596405The 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 654778. 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.