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Weaver, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minneiska Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55910. It stands on East Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weaver quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Weaver within Wabasha County

On record in Weaver

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

8 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

1,828 words on this township

History of Wabasha County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. : Gathered from Matter Furnished by Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township, and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Also a History of Winona County, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Minneiska Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Minneiska is a fine brisk business town, containing within its limits two villages, one of which bears the same name as the town, while the fitlier is called Weaver and is situated about three miles northwest of the village of Minneiska, the latter village being situated in the extreme southeastern corner of the town. Both Minneiska and Weaver are stations on the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. The village of Minneiska is built on the banks of the Mississippi river, and has one of the finest natural boat-landings to be found on the great "Father of Waters" from Lake Itaska to the Gulf. The village extends for about a mile along the river's bank, and contains but one street of anj consequence. So abrupt is the ascent of the high bhiffs which at tliis point rise abnost from the river shore and tower over tlie village at an altitude of live liundred feet, that it was impossible to do otherwise than confine the limits of the village to this narrow compass. During the winter months the sun, shortlj after noon, hides her face behind these steep bluffs, not to appear again until she peeps over the AVisconsin hills on the following morning, while during other seasons of the year she is lost to Minneiska at a correspondingly early hour, and it may therefore be truthfully said that in this village " the sun never sets."

Passage source: History of Wabasha County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. : Gathered from Matter Furnished by Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township, and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Also a History of Winona County, published 1884.

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 Minneiska Township.

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Weaver between 1992 and 2020, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2012Recreation and ceremony15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabasha 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 Weaver: 6 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Dodge County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Weaver QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Averbeck Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Buffalo City Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Buffalo City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foegen Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J. Martin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lizzy Pauls Pond Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
River Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weaver in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021HailWeaver-no account filed
June 2016HailWeaver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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
West Newton3.8 miles20
Kellogg7.4 miles20
Midland Junction8.3 miles15
Conception10.2 miles15
Wabasha12.9 miles16
Plainview13.3 miles13
Dumfries13.5 miles15
Theilman14.9 miles15

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 WeaverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7978344The 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 653873. 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.

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.