Summit, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55917. The Survey maps it on the Steele Center quadrangle.

Summit within Steele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Steele Center quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

729 words on this township

Geographical and Statistical History of Steele County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Embracing Leading Incidents of Pioneer Life, Names of Early Settlers ... &c, published 1868 names this settlement in its chapter on Summit Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In June, 1856, G. W. Knapp, with his family, located in the town of Summit, which is the center town of the southern tier, be;ng flanked on the east by Oak Glen, and on the west by Berlin, with Somerset on the north, and Freeborn county on the south. The northwest corner of the town has considerable timber ; suflScient to supply the balance of the town with all necessary fuel and fencing. A branch of the Straight river runs across the northwest corner, in a northeasterly direction, while another branch, taking its rise in a little lake lying partly in the town of Oak Glen, flows in a northwesterly course across the entire town, making an abundant supply of water for stock. The land is somewhat rolling, of a light but very productive soil, of about the same nature of that in other portions of the county. No watfer power in the town, that is available for the purpose of driving machinery.

Passage source: Geographical and Statistical History of Steele County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Embracing Leading Incidents of Pioneer Life, Names of Early Settlers ... &c, published 1868.

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 Summit Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 2012 and 2018, burning about 84 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
21 May 2015	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	STRAIGHT CREEK
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	STRAIGHT CREEK
8 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steele County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Summit: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Wrander Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steele 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
Litomysl	1.8 miles	7
River Point	3.4 miles	7
Union	3.8 miles	7
Bixby	5.0 miles	8
Steele Center	5.2 miles	7
Hope	5.6 miles	7
Ellendale	7.0 miles	7
Pratt	7.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654967. 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.