BlockNorth Redwood, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Redwood Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 56283. It stands on Redwood River. The Survey maps it on the Redwood Falls quadrangle.
On record in North Redwood
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 1 record
- Honner-Hosken Houselisted 1980
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1952 USGS Redwood Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Redwood Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Redwood Falls quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,866 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Redwood Falls City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Among the beautiful and useful public buildings to which the citizens of Redwood Falls point with pride is the Carnegie library, erected in 1904 at an approximate cost of $10,000. The base of the structure is North Redwood granite, the superstructure being pressed brick. The building is open to the reading public seven days and five evenings each week. It is supported by taxation under the management of nine trustees chosen by the mayor. Elizabeth Connor ably officiates as librarian.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Redwood Falls City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of North Redwood in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Redwood: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota River Valley Clays | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free | Occurrence | ||
| Morton Pit | Kaolin | Producer | Gibbsite, Illite, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz | |
| Norton Clay Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Redwood in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Redwood | - | Empty 27000 pound grain bin blown over. |
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.
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 Q33467983 | The 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 648680. 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.