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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.

Reads Landing within Wabasha County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

10,395 words on this township

The 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 1994

Regional 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/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2021008
6 May 2016Debris and open burning3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1994Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabasha County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Freiheit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marky Bluff Rd Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Charles Serene, Jr. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Pepin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wabasha Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winona S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997HailReads Landing$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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
Wabasha2.8 miles16
Maple Springs4.4 miles15
Dumfries4.5 miles15
Midland Junction6.9 miles15
Kellogg7.8 miles20
Conception9.6 miles15
Theilman9.8 miles15
Lake City10.5 miles13

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.