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Money Creek, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Money Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55943. It lies near Campbell Valley. The Survey maps it on the Houston quadrangle. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Money Creek within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Money Creek between 1992 and 2014, burning about 145 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 May 2006Recreation and ceremony4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2014Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 1997Debris and open burning8.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Money Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Oak Ridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Money Creek in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2007Flash FloodMoney Creek$6,000,000Tremendous flash flooding and mudslides covered many highways in the area, including Highway 76 between Money Creek and Houston. Highway bridges were completely blown out and sections of roads were quickly eroded away. Other mudslides were reported on county highways 9, 13 and 26.
July 2022Tornado (EF0)Money Creek$125,000An EF0 tornado moved through rural portions of Houston County north of the city of Houston. The tornado destroyed one barn, pushed another off its foundation, and damaged trees and some crops.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMoney Creek$5,000A shed was damaged by straight line winds.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMoney Creek$3,000A path of wind damage occurred west of Money Creek where large tree limbs were broken off.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMoney Creek$2,000Thunderstorms winds blew down trees. An electrical transformer was on fire but the cause was unknown.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMoney Creek$500no account filed
September 2010HailMoney Creek-no account filed
August 2006HailMoney Creek-no account filed
March 2005HailMoney Creek-no account filed
July 2005HailMoney Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Perkins3.1 miles10
Houston4.7 miles10
South Ridge9.9 miles13
Sheldon9.9 miles9
Yucatan10.5 miles8
Schechs Mill10.8 miles9
Pine Creek11.3 miles13
Village Terrace14.2 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 Money CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6899116The 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 648024. 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.