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Mission Farms, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Plymouth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55441. The Survey maps it on the Osseo quadrangle.

Mission Farms within Hennepin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

8,278 words on this township

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Plymouth City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plymouth City - 8,278 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mission Farms between 2000 and 2003, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2000Arson/incendiarism14 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mission Farms: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
North Central Aggregate PitBentoniteProducer
Barton Pit No 725Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway 18 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopkins PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin 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
Medicine Lake1.7 miles25
Plymouth1.7 miles21
New Hope2.4 miles21
Oak Knoll3.2 miles25
Crystal3.5 miles21
Golden Valley4.0 miles21
Maple Grove4.1 miles21
Robbinsdale4.6 miles21

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 Q122593709The 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 647988. 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.