BlockRich Valley, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rosemount City. It lies in ZIP code area 55068. The Survey maps it on the Coates quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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
- 1957 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Coates quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
7,759 words on this townshipHistory of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Rosemount City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Rich Valley Grange Number 130. This society was organized January 25th, 1873, with twenty-five charter members and the following officers: Thomas Clark, master; William Strath- em, overseer; D. G. Harrington, lecturer; Thos. Hole, secretary; J. R. Wallace, treasurer; Walter Strathern, steward; Orville Wood worth, assistant steward; Mrs. Mark Hole, Ceres; Mrs. J. R. Wallace, Pomona; Mrs. Juliette Hole, Flora; Mrs. Thomas Clark, lady assistant steward.
Passage source: History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.
Mark Holle was born in East Kent, England, April 23d, 1805. He served three and one-half years in the British navy, and in 1840, came to America. Landing in New York he made it his home until 1864, then came to Minnesota, and settled in Rosemount township. At that time he purchased his farm, and has since sold eighty acres to his son, having now eighty left. In 1866, received the appointment of postmaster of Rich Valley, which he has since held, Married in 1834, to Miss Mary Nash. Fifteen children have been born to them; the living are, Richard, Mary, Thomas, Ellen, Mark, Jr., Juliet, Alice, Leonard, Clara and Annie.
Passage source: History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.
B. H. Pettingill, Jr., mail carrier and farmer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 4th, 1858. When a lad of ten years, he came to Minnesota, and in 1878, made a brief visit to Dakota territory. He has been mail carrier between Rich Valley and Hastings for the past two years. His home is with his father in section 19, Rosemount township.
Passage source: History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rich Valley in 2016, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rich Valley: 4 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Pine Bend Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Hasting Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Shiely Larson Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Markham Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Nelson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654902. 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.