BlockBefore

Pillsbury, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bruce Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56382. It stands on Moose Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swanville quadrangle.

Pillsbury within Todd 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.

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Pillsbury between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,658 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning32
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1994Natural1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pillsbury: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lambrecht PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Loven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pillsbury in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPillsbury$150,000A farm was severely damaged as a concentrated area of wind damage occurred northeast of Long Prairie. The farm was located on Indigo Drive where the owner reported hundreds of trees blown down on his farm. The barn was completely destroyed with damage to a fence and home.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPillsbury-A large tree was blown down southwest of Pillsbury.
August 2016Heavy RainPillsbury-A trained spotter measured 5.32 inches of rain near Pillsbury.
June 2016HailPillsbury-no account filed
July 2010HailPillsbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Burtrum4.5 miles10
Grey Eagle8.2 miles10
North Shore9.5 miles10
Long Prairie10.1 miles9
Round Prairie10.9 miles8
Pleasant Beach11.1 miles10
Ward Springs11.7 miles8
Little Sauk13.3 miles8

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 PillsburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65044287The 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 649431. 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.

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.