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Skyline, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Skyline City. It lies in ZIP code area 56001. It stands on Le Sueur River. The Survey maps it on the Mankato West quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Skyline within Blue Earth County

On record in Skyline

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

Population over time

2 figures

Skyline fell from 289 to 288 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010289
2020288-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Skyline between 2009 and 2013, 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
5 July 2013Fireworks5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blue Earth County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Skyline: 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Blue Earth County Sand BedSilicaOccurrence
Blue Earth County Clay Deposit No 1ClayOccurrence
Blue Earth County Clay Deposit No 2ClayOccurrence
Guaranteed Gravel & Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanel Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mankato Stone CenterLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vetter Main Quarry & MillLimestone, DimensionProducer
Lundin 8th Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lundin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Blue Earth 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
LeHillier0.7 miles13
Mankato2.2 miles14
University Park of Mankato2.4 miles14
Rapidan3.9 miles12
Belle Haven4.0 miles14
Benning4.6 miles14
Knollwood Park5.3 miles14
Eagle Lake8.1 miles14

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 SkylineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925159The 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 652140. 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.