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Orchard Garden, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burnsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 55306. It lies near Buck Hill. The Survey maps it on the Orchard Lake quadrangle.

Orchard Garden within Dakota County

On record in Orchard Garden

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Orchard Garden between 2000 and 2020, burning about 35 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 May 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBLACK DOG 3
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCLIFF
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCOLEMAN LAKE
2 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2006Fireworks2.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBLACK DOG
9 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCLIFF FEN
7 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeNINE MILE CREEK
18 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeKRAMER GRAVEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Orchard Garden: 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Burnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Casperson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fisher Sand & Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kraemer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Lakeville Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mva Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northwestern Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dakota 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
Deer Park2.0 miles12
Argonne2.1 miles12
Burnsville3.1 miles26
Apple Valley4.2 miles12
Antlers Park4.6 miles12
Lakeville5.9 miles12
Cedar Grove7.1 miles30
Nicols7.8 miles30

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 Q122568891The 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 648987. 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.