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Morningside Terrace, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Winona City. It lies in ZIP code area 55987. It lies near East Burns Valley. The Survey maps it on the Winona East quadrangle.

Morningside Terrace within Winona County

On record in Morningside Terrace

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

29,591 words on this township

History of Winona County, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Winona City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Winona City - 29,591 words.

Fires near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Morningside Terrace between 1993 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeBFC
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWinona District of the Upper Mississippi ComplexGRAFF
7 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
7 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Morningside Terrace: 7 producers, 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Biesanz Winona QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Many Waters Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marshland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rivers Breeze Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Big Bend Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bluff Siding Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bluff Siding Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bronk Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Buffalo Ridge Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Buffalo Ridge Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Winona 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
Sugarloaf0.1 miles18
Winona1.7 miles18
Homer3.6 miles18
Goodview4.5 miles18
Wilson5.7 miles11
Centerville5.9 miles11
Witoka6.5 miles11
Pickwick7.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122553365The 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 2052073. 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.