Reads Landing, Minnesota
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pepin Township. It stands on Brewery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wabasha North quadrangle.
On record in Reads Landing
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 1 record
Reads Landing Schoollisted 1989
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1932 USGS Wabasha quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Wabasha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 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
- 1974 USGS Wabasha North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
10,395 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Pepin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Pepin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Reads Landing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2021008 |
| 6 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1994 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018007 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Reads Landing: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Freiheit Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Marky Bluff Rd Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Charles Serene, Jr. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Pepin Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Wabasha Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Winona S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reads Landing in 1 storm report in 1997: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Hail | Reads Landing | $10,000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wabasha | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Maple Springs | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Dumfries | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Midland Junction | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Kellogg | 7.8 miles | 20 | |
| Conception | 9.6 miles | 15 | |
| Theilman | 9.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lake City | 10.5 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649857. 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.








