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Village Terrace, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hokah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55941. It stands on Butterfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Crescent quadrangle.

Village Terrace within Houston County

On record in Village Terrace

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

2,087 words on this township

The Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1858; History of Houston County, Minnesota, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hokah Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hokah Township - 2,087 words.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Village Terrace between 1992 and 2015, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
10 June 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Village Terrace: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Conniff Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gap Hill Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Horn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zaiger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houston 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
Hokah0.7 miles14
La Crescent5.6 miles14
South Ridge5.9 miles13
Shepardson's Park5.9 miles14
Brownsville6.1 miles10
Pine Creek6.4 miles13
River Junction6.9 miles14
Freeburg10.2 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122598151The 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 2050588. 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.