BlockLake Elysian, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Janesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56048. The Survey maps it on the Elysian quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Elysian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
970 words on this townshipChild's History of Waseca County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement in 1854 to the Close of the Year 1904, a Record of Fifty Years : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1905 names this settlement in its chapter on Janesville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
James, Thomas, John and Jerry Hogan, four brothers, came from tlie state of Kentucky in 1855, and settled in the timber on the west side of Lake Elysian. These were among the hardy pioneers that came here to make homes for themselves and their children, and they became permanent settlers.
Passage source: Child's History of Waseca County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement in 1854 to the Close of the Year 1904, a Record of Fifty Years : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1905.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
15 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lake Elysian between 2006 and 2012, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janesville | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Smiths Mill | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Alma City | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Palmer | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Mary | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Colony Court | 11.5 miles | 11 | |
| Waseca | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Wilton | 13.3 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 659830. 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.