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Osage, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56570. The Survey maps it on the Osage quadrangle.

Osage within Becker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

3,004 words on this township

A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Osage Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Osag-e, the name chosen, was taken from Osage, Iowa, which was conjured from O. Sage, a wealthy New Yorker, who afterwards gave his namesake a vaUiable library, and we are sorry that he did not serve us likewise.

Passage source: A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907.

Osage had quite a boom in 1881-2 but it practically stood still for ten years. Then prospects of a railroad appeared upon the horizon only to vanish in the early nineties. Then it began to retrograde for another decade, but in 1901 McKinley's store was consumed by fire, together with nearly all the buildings on the north side of the street. Osage had to rebuild and since that time has had a steady growth. In 1904 Henry AA'ay built a fine residence and ]\Ir. Burlingame also completed another modern building.

Passage source: A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907.

During the winter of 1903,- while the Legislature was in session, E. D. Sylvester requested Senator Peterson for an appropriation of $600 for a bridge at Osage. Senator Peterson and representative Hawley took the matter in hand ; l)ut when the Legislature cut the appropriation bill in two, the allo\\ance became $300. Now we have a substantial bridge of stone abutments.

Passage source: A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota, Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History ... and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also, Including ... Historical Information Collected by Mrs. Jessie C. West. And Numerous Articles Written by Various Early Pioneers Relating to the History of the Several Townships of Becker County, published 1907.

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 Osage Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Osage between 1992 and 2017, burning about 317 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
3 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2006Natural1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution9.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOsage$500,000A two stall garage was demolished and the contents strewn downwind due to downburst winds. Nearby roofs received shingle or roofing damage and numerous trees were snapped or toppled over from northeast Carsonville into northern Osage Township.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOsage-Peak wind measured at the RWIS station in Osage on Hwy 34.
July 2022HailOsage-Received a public report of 1.5 inch hail, relayed by a broadcast media partner.
August 2020Funnel CloudOsage-A persistent funnel cloud was reported.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOsage-Trees were blown down onto highway 34.
September 2017HailOsage-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOsage-A few large 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down and a part of a corn field was flattened.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Osage-The tornado continued into Hubbard county.
June 2002Flash FloodOsage-Numerous county roads were washed out.
July 2020HailOsage-no account filed
September 2019HailOsage-no account filed
September 2017HailOsage-no account filed
August 2015HailOsage-no account filed
June 2015HailOsage-no account filed
July 2012HailOsage-no account filed
August 2008HailOsage-no account filed
June 2005HailOsage-no account filed
August 2001HailOsage-no account filed
August 2001HailOsage-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOsage-no account filed
July 1998HailOsage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Ponsford7.6 miles10
Pine Point7.8 miles10
Snellman8.5 miles10
Two Inlets9.4 miles9
Wolf Lake9.5 miles9
Midway9.5 miles9
Goldenrod12.1 miles9
Evergreen15.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649009. 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.