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Klossner, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56073. The Survey maps it on the New Ulm quadrangle.

Klossner within Nicollet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Klossner between 2002 and 2015, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2010Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 December 2006Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 December 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicollet 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 Klossner: 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
Reinhart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nicollet County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klossner in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindKlossner-County Dispatch reported trees down near the intersection of Co Rd 21 and 611th ave.
June 2010HailKlossner-The public reported mostly one-quarter inch hail that fell just south of New Ulm, but a few nickel size fell prior to the hail ending east of town.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindKlossner-A large tree branch was blown down near the intersection of County Road 21, and 581st Avenue southwest of Klossner, Minnesota. In addition, a large tree was blown down in the city of Lafayette, Minnesota.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindKlossner-The top of a machine shed was destroyed.
May 2003HailKlossner-Hail covered ground for several hours.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Klossner-Touched down in field. Corn flattened.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindKlossner-Tree down on road.
July 1997HailKlossner-Crop damage.
July 2017HailKlossner-no account filed
July 2017HailKlossner-no account filed
June 2008HailKlossner-no account filed
July 2000Funnel CloudKlossner-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindKlossner-no account filed
July 1996HailKlossner-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindKlossner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nicollet 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
Lafayette5.8 miles9
Saint George5.9 miles9
Courtland8.1 miles9
Bernadotte9.0 miles9
Poor Farm Landing10.1 miles9
Nicollet Landing12.5 miles9
New Sweden12.8 miles9
Nicollet14.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 646195. 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.