BlockNorseland, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lake Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56082. The Survey maps it on the Norseland quadrangle.
On record in Norseland
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Norseland General Storelisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Norseland quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Norseland in 2011, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 November 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 37 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norseland in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Norseland | - | A tornado touched down in a field and hit a farmstead, knocking down and breaking multiple trees across the property. The time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norseland | - | Four to six inch diameter tree branches broken off. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Norseland | - | The time was estimated. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norseland | - | Large tree blown down across Highway 22. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Norseland | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Norseland | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Norseland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Sweden | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Traverse | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Oshawa | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| North Star | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Poor Farm Landing | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Nicollet | 10.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bernadotte | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Nicollet Landing | 10.4 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654849. 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.
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.