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Little Sauk, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Sauk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56360. The Survey maps it on the Sauk Lake quadrangle.

Little Sauk within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Little Sauk between 1992 and 2017, burning about 184 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use31 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Little Sauk: 3 producers. 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
Haskamp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Todd County Pit No 21Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Sauk in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 3 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
May 2012HailLittle Sauk-The large hail stones covered the ground.
July 2007HailLittle Sauk-no account filed
July 2002HailLittle Sauk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Round Prairie3.3 miles8
Gutches Grove6.0 miles8
Spaulding7.0 miles8
Ward Springs7.8 miles8
Long Prairie8.1 miles9
Grey Eagle9.5 miles10
West Union9.8 miles8
North Shore10.4 miles10

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 Q122562556The 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 646925. 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.