Wasioja, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wasioja Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55927. It stands on Dodge Center Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dodge Center quadrangle.

Wasioja within Dodge County

On record in Wasioja

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.

Wasioja Historic Districtlisted 1975 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dodge Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wasioja: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
	Paulson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Stussy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wasioja in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wasioja	$5,000	Some trees and power lines were blown down north of Dodge Center.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wasioja	$2,500	A trained spotter reported numerous trees down and a rotating wall cloud near Wasioja.
June 2014	Funnel Cloud	Wasioja	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near Wasioja.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wasioja	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wasioja	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Mantorville	3.5 miles	11
Eden	3.5 miles	11
Valley View Park	3.8 miles	11
Dodge Center	4.1 miles	11
Heritage Estates	4.2 miles	11
Concord	4.7 miles	11
Kasson	5.0 miles	11
South Fork Homes	5.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 653827. 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.