BlockRowena, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Avon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56293. The Survey maps it on the Rowena quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.
On record in Rowena
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.
- District No. 8 Schoollisted 1980 · 0.0 miles away
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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rowena quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
772 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on New Avon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
New Avon township is located in the central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-36. It is bounded on the north by Redwood Palls, on the east by Three Lakes, on the south by Willow Lake, and on the west by Vail. The surface is level or gently rolling. The Evan-Marshall branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses it from east to west in the southern part. Its only station is Rowena, consisting of an elevator, a store, a school house, and several homes. The trading centers are Morgan and Redwood Falls. There are four school houses. The predominating nationality is German.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowena in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Hail | Rowena | - | Several trained spotters reported quarter to hen egg size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clements | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Wabasso | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wanda | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Gilfillan | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Redwood Falls | 10.5 miles | 13 | |
| Seaforth | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| Morgan | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| North Redwood | 12.4 miles | 13 |
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 Rowena | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20710936 | 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 654918. 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.
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.