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Lamoille, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55987. It stands on Big Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trempealeau quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Lamoille within Winona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

867 words on this township

History of Winona County, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Richmond Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Besides these, u Mrs. Jennings owned a small millinery establishment. Fredrick Cushman built the first sawmill in 1855. At the same time a blacksmith shop was run by Iluttenhow. J. M. Winn was the village physician. The first school-building,- the present district school, was erected in 1857. School has never been discontinued. ''East Richmond," a rival to Richmond proper, was laid out in 1857 by A. Davenport and a Mr. Rodgers, just south of the first village on the same section. A few houses were built, but it was soon after abandoned. Richmond proper at that time was quite a town, but since then it has gradually decayed, houses have been torn down and removed entirely, until, at present writing, what once was a thriving little town, nothing remains but four shabby old dwellings and a small store kept by J. P. Nevill. Lamoille, a railway station on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, is on the Mississippi river ; it is two miles from Pickwick, a small town in Homer township.

Passage source: History of Winona County, published 1883.

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 Richmond Township.

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Lamoille between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 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 burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
25 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeBFC
10 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2023
7 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1826
3 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lamoille: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Trempealeau Dolomite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Trempealeau Dolomite Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eichman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank Eichman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G Stetzer Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gibbs Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H Kohnle Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Ryder Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Ryder Sand & Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Harold Ryder Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamoille in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2008Flash FloodLamoille$250,000Flash flooding led to mudslides and damage to sections of County Road 9 along Cedar Creek. Pleasant Valley Creek also had a flash flood. Water flowed into nearby fields as well.
July 2024HailLamoille$25,000Local officials reported golf ball sized hail near Lamoille.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLamoille$5,000Power outages were reported east of Pickwick from downed power lines.
September 2016Flash FloodLamoille$4,000A mudslide sent trees onto one of the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 61 near Pickwick. The heavy rain also caused water to go over some private driveways along County Highway 19.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLamoille$2,000Small trees were knocked down along County Road 7.
April 2017Flash FloodLamoille-Debris from a mudslide caused the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 61 to be closed southeast of Homer.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLamoille-An estimated a 60 mile per hour wind gust occurred near Pickwick.

Every storm recorded in Winona 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
Pickwick1.8 miles14
Donehower4.5 miles14
Homer4.7 miles18
Nodine7.0 miles14
Ridgeway7.8 miles11
Sugarloaf8.2 miles18
Morningside Terrace8.2 miles18
New Hartford8.5 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on LamoilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6482132The 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 646461. 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.