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Wilson, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55987. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle.

Wilson within Winona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2006Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

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 Wilson: 2 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
Hector Constr QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarve and Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023HailWilson$50,000Public reported tennis ball sized hail near Winona.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWilson$25,000A semi was blown over on Interstate 90 near Wilson.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWilson$10,000Power poles were snapped southwest of Wilson.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindWilson$5,000A power outage was caused by downed tree branches north of Wilson.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWilson$5,000no account filed
April 2025HailWilson-The public reported penny sized hail about 2 miles west-southwest of Wilson. The report was relayed via mPing.
July 2023HailWilson-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail between Rushford and Winona.
September 2018HailWilson-Quarter sized hail fell near Wilson.
April 2022HailWilson-no account filed
September 2021HailWilson-no account filed
August 2020HailWilson-no account filed
April 2002HailWilson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winona 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
Centerville2.8 miles11
Witoka3.9 miles11
Sugarloaf5.6 miles18
Morningside Terrace5.7 miles18
Wyattville5.7 miles10
Stockton6.5 miles14
Hart6.5 miles11
Winona6.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 655015. 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.