BlockPratt, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55060. The Survey maps it on the Owatonna quadrangle. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Owatonna quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,150 words on this townshipGeographical and Statistical History of Steele County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Embracing Leading Incidents of Pioneer Life, Names of Early Settlers ... &c, published 1868 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Aurora Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Aurora Township - 1,150 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pratt in 2012, burning about 1 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 use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 November 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LINCOLN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pratt in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Pratt | - | Due to excessive rainfall, Maple Creek went out of its banks and flooded significant portions of Mineral Springs Park, Dartts Park, and the municipal golf course. Flooding was particularly widespread over parts of the golf course where Izaak Walton Creek flows into Maple Creek from the south. Flooding along the Straight River was also fairly significant where most of the lower portion of River Bend campground (just west of I35 and 28th St. SW) was under several feet of water, as was Morehouse Park (the park adjacent to the power plant) 28th St. SW was closed with water over the road in two separate places south of town. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Pratt | - | County Road 45 was blocked due to water from a local creek spilling over the roadway south of Owatonna. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Pratt | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havana | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Steele Center | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Litomysl | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Owatonna | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Saco | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bixby | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Summit | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| River Point | 7.3 miles | 7 |
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 Pratt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20709623 | 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 654892. 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.