Simpson, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pleasant Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55904. The Survey maps it on the Simpson quadrangle.

Simpson within Olmsted County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Stewartville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Simpson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Simpson: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Quarve #63 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
T H 82 South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Welch Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Baker B Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Baker Mine	Iron	Unknown
Bernard Mine	Iron	Past Producer
D O Dar<Tello	Iron	Past Producer
Lowrie Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simpson in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 5 hail, 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
September 2018	Flash Flood	Simpson	$20,000	Runoff from heavy rain caused street flooding to occur in portions of Rochester. Cars became stalled in the flood waters on the northwest side of the city. Part of an intersection of two city streets was partially washed out. Flooding also occurred in Byron where roads were closed.
May 2013	Hail	Simpson	-	Golf ball sized hail fell southeast of Rochester.
June 2010	Hail	Simpson	-	The thunderstorm winds were estimated to be between 40 and 50 mph.
August 2010	Hail	Simpson	-	The hail fell at the intersection of U.S. Highway 52 and Interstate 90.
August 2007	Hail	Simpson	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Simpson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Marion	3.5 miles	9
Judge	3.9 miles	10
Pleasant Grove	4.0 miles	9
Predmore	4.4 miles	9
Oak Terrace Estates	5.4 miles	18
Golden Hill	5.4 miles	10
Stewartville	6.3 miles	9
Chester	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 652079. 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.

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.