Whitman, Minnesota

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.

• 1932 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

An account from the chapter on Rollingstone township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Winona County, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Whitman between 1992 and 2018, burning about 48 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rollingstone
• Altura
• Minnesota City
• Stockton

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Whitman: 15 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Winona County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitman in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Winona County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 655009. 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.