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Bingham Lake, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lakeside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56118. The Survey maps it on the Bingham Lake quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Bingham Lake within Cottonwood County

Population over time

2 figures

Bingham Lake grew from 126 to 137 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010126
2020137+11 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bingham Lake between 2000 and 2015, burning about 227 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 May 2000Debris and open burning97 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictWOLF LAKE (RX/WF)
1 May 2000Debris and open burning127 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictFISH LAKE (RX/WF)
2 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictGREAT BEND TWP SECT 26 - PL ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottonwood 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 Bingham Lake: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Cottonwood County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Windom-Windom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cottonwood County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham Lake in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBingham Lake$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, and flattened a corn crop. The amount of crop damage was not known.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBingham Lake$20,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBingham Lake-Thunderstorm winds cause tree damage in a shelter belt, including up to 3 inch diameter hardwood branches broken off.
August 2014HailBingham Lake-Hail was heavy enough to strip leaves from trees and damage a corn crop. The hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
August 2014Heavy RainBingham Lake-Rainfall of 4.50 inches was reported. The heavy rain was accompanied for a while by nickel size hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBingham Lake-Thunderstorm winds blew down small branches.
July 2006HailBingham Lake-Large hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBingham Lake-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 inch diameter branches blown down.
May 2004HailBingham Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottonwood 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
Windom4.7 miles7
Delft5.9 miles7
Mountain Lake6.6 miles7
Jeffers13.0 miles10
Storden17.0 miles9
Westbrook22.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Bingham LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2251497The 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 640155. 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.