BlockSheldon, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sheldon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55921. It stands on Beaver Creek East. The Survey maps it on the Sheldon quadrangle.
On record in Sheldon
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.
- Schech Milllisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Sheldon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,800 words on this townshipThe Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1858 names this settlement in its chapter on Sheldon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town of Sheldon issitucated in town 103 of range 6 west, on the line heiwetn sections 31 and 32, and derives its name fi-om one of its p-opriotors, Mr. Julius C. Sheldon a resident of Suffield, Connecticut. The original town plat comprises forty acres of fine bottom land, to which an addition of twenty acres has been made, and though s.ifficiently ample for the present iraproveraentg and requirements of its citizens, enough of the same quality of land remains to increase its limits to almost any extent.
Passage source: The Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1858.
Upon the whole, we consider the town of Sheldon as one destined to be of no second or tliird rate importance in the history ..f our progress. Her fine natural advantages must attract attention when they become generally known, and when tliorougli business men begin to improve these advantages her superiority as a good point for the interchange of all kinds of commodities, must and will place her in a prominent position among tlie towns of Southern Minnesota.
Passage source: The Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1858.
TJiis road once built will give the town of Sheldon a convenient shipping point for its manufactures, being only six miles dista7)t, at the same time making Houston an important place for the accumulation of those productions which this region of country will supply for a foreign market. Farming lands within four or live miles of Houston range in price from five to twenty-live dollars per acre, and no one who is familiar with the rnagniticent crops of Houston County last year will consider the prices inflated to satisfy the demands of a speculative mania.
Passage source: The Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1858.
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 Sheldon Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Sheldon between 1992 and 2014, burning about 143 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 June 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sheldon: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Holty-Badger Quarry - Badger | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Holty-Badger Quarry- Holty | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheldon in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheldon | $125,000 | Two swaths of wind damage occurred three to five miles north of Caledonia. Several barns were damaged, a wind mill was hit, numerous trees were blown over, and a mobile home was destroyed from wind gusts. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheldon | $5,000 | An almost 4 mile long path of wind damage was found between Caledonia and Houston. The damage started in the northern part of Beaver Creek Valley State Park and continued northeast to near the intersection of State Highway 76 and Haute Ridge Road. Numerous trees were blown down in this damage path. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheldon | - | A 66 mph wind gust occurred north of Sheldon. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Sheldon | - | Heavy rain pushed Badger Creek out of its banks causing water to flow over State Highway 76 north of Caledonia. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schechs Mill | 1.0 miles | 9 | |
| Yucatan | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Black Hammer | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Caledonia | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Highland Park Estates | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pine Estates | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Houston | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Willington Grove | 6.9 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 651939. 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.