Penasse, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Angle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56711. It stands on Penasse Island. The Survey maps it on the Flag Island quadrangle.

Penasse within Lake of the Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1918 USGS Oak Island quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Kenora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Flag Island quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Oak Island quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Penasse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
	Nw Angle Feldspar Mine	Feldspar	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake of the Woods 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fort Saint Charles	1.2 miles	6
Angle Inlet	5.7 miles	5
Long Point	26.9 miles	7
Birch Beach	28.7 miles	7
Arnesén	28.9 miles	9
Wheelers Point	39.1 miles	7
Hackett	40.2 miles	7
Williams	41.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649255. 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.

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.