BlockPetersburg, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Petersburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56143. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,205 words on this townshipAn Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Petersburg Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Petersburg is a little inland hamlet located near the center of Petersburg township, boasting a creamery, a store, school house and a few residences. In the sixties a postoffice named Petersburg was established on section 28, with Bev. Peter Baker as postmaster. Like most country postoffices it had an intermittant existence, being discontinued and reestablished several times. Andrew Everson became postmaster in December, 1876, and at another reestablishment in July, 1888, 0. W. Edgecombe became postmaster. The office was discontinued for good in 1904, and beginning with October the patrons were sui5plied by niral free delivery.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910.
Some of the farmers of Petersburg township in 1897 organized the Petersburg Dairy association, purchased a site, erected a creamery building and started a creamery under the management of Chris Sorenson. The next year B. A. Kittleson erected a building and opened a store, which he conducted until the spring of 1\)02, when he sold to the Nasby Mercantile company. The townsite was platted April 13, 1898, by William Schroeder.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910.
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 Petersburg Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
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 Petersburg: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Frye Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mauer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | $50,000 | Large hail broke windows and dented vehicles. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649318. 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.
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.