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Lenora, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Canton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55922. It stands on Sorenson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Lenora within Fillmore County

On record in Lenora

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lenora between 1999 and 2003, burning about 4 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 burning2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 July 2001Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 October 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lenora: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Rowe MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoag Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lustikow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newberg MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roverud QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenora in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindLenora$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLenora-Roof damage to county maintenance shop. Numerous large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Amherst2.6 miles8
Henrytown2.9 miles8
Newburg3.6 miles8
Canton3.9 miles8
Prosper4.5 miles8
Tawney5.8 miles8
Harmony6.9 miles8
Mabel7.0 miles8

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 LenoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657943The 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 646598. 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.