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New Hartford, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New Hartford Township. The Survey maps it on the Pickwick quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

New Hartford within Winona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of New Hartford between 1996 and 2014, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2000Debris and open burning42 acresMinnesota 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Hartford: 2 producers. 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
Frickson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Yeadke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hartford in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 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 2022HailNew Hartford-Quarter sized hail fell in New Hartford.
September 2010FloodNew Hartford-Water was over roads near the intersection of County Roads 125 and 5.

Every storm 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
Nodine2.8 miles14
Ridgeway5.0 miles11
Dakota6.6 miles13
Donehower6.8 miles14
Dresbach7.1 miles13
Pickwick7.2 miles14
Lamoille8.5 miles11
Witoka8.5 miles11

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 New HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28872049The 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 654844. 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.