BlockMatawan, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Byron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56072. The Survey maps it on the Matawan quadrangle. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Matawan quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
256 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 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Byron Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Byron Township - 256 words.
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Matawan in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Flood | Matawan | - | Flood waters were reported over 210th Avenue and 35th Avenue, near Matawan. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Matawan | - | Trees uprooted. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Matawan | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Matawan | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waldorf | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| New Richland | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Otisco | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Vista | 11.3 miles | 7 | |
| Saint Mary | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Wilton | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Alma City | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Waseca | 16.6 miles | 11 |
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 Matawan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20658023 | The 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 647610. 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.
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.