BlockOshawa, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Oshawa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56082. The Survey maps it on the North Star quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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 North Star quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oshawa in 2013, burning about 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oshawa in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Oshawa | - | Cocorahs station MN-NC-3 St. Peter 6WSW. 72 hour total of 5.00 inches. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oshawa | - | A trained spotter had a hand held wind sensor that measured 52 knots. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Oshawa | - | The tornado mostly crossed corn and bean fields, but it did originate near a freshly cut alfalfa field. The alfalfa was easily blown and resulted in a debris signature on radar. The tornado produced very minor damage at a few farmsteads, and knocked down several dozen trees along with breaking many large branches. The tornado was also photographed by a local resident. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oshawa | - | The combination of loads of small hail, and strong winds caused crop damage east of Nicollet, Minnesota. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oshawa | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Oshawa | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Oshawa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Star | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Nicollet | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Traverse | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Nicollet Landing | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Kerns | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Poor Farm Landing | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Norseland | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Peter | 8.0 miles | 13 |
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 Oshawa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20707870 | 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 654862. 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.