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Pleasant Grove, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pleasant Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55976. The Survey maps it on the Stewartville quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Olmsted County

On record in Pleasant Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2001 and 2009, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
16 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Chester Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Welch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allen MineIronPast Producer
Baker A MineIronPast Producer
Baker B MineIronPast Producer
Baker MineIronUnknown
Bernard MineIronPast Producer
D O Dar<TelloIronPast Producer
Finley MineIronPast Producer
Krueger MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$50,000An open air farm outbuilding was destroyed and a quarter of the roof was removed from a barn east of Stewartville.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$2,000Trees were snapped off in Pleasant Grove.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$750no account filed
June 2020HailPleasant Grove-Quarter sized hail fell east of Stewartville.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred east of Stewartville.
May 2013HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
June 1997HailPleasant Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Simpson4.0 miles10
Judge5.2 miles10
Marion5.5 miles9
Stewartville5.5 miles9
Predmore5.6 miles9
Cummingsville6.7 miles9
High Forest8.9 miles8
Golden Hill9.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649549. 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.