Cass Lake, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Pike Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56633. It lies near Swede Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cass Lake quadrangle. 675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.
On record in Cass Lake
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 3 records
Great Northern Railway Company Bridgelisted 1980
Supervisor's Office Headquarterslisted 1976- Battle Point (21CA12)listed 1990
Population over time
2 figuresCass Lake fell from 770 to 675 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 770 | |
| 2020 | 675 | -95 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
260 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Cass Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 517 acres in total. None started naturally. 95 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/incendiarism | 95 |
| Debris and open burning | 72 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | SWEDE HILL |
| 15 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | SO # 2 |
| 1 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cass Lake: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beltrami County Marl Beds No 3 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cass Lake in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | A tree was down on camper at a campground. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | A gust of 59 mph was recorded by Mesonet station CASM5 Cass Lake RAWS. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | A large tree was uprooted at the Cass Lake rest area on US2. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Photos were received from the Chippewa National Forest of numerous small to medium trees down over forest roads. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | The siding on the Palace Casino in Cass Lake was torn off by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Trees as large as eighteen inches in diameter were blown down. Some trees were also uprooted. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Trees were blown down on Tract 33. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | The gust was recorded by the Cass Lake remote automatic weather station. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | A 3 diameter branch was down and partially blocking a driveway. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Widespread severe tree damage was reported along US 2. Trees were either blown down or leaning toward toward the east and southeast. Minor structural damage was also noted. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Widespread severe tree damage was reported along US 2. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | Hail, up to quarter size, covered the ground. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | This was the eastward extension of a wind-damage path of downed trees from Beltrami County, along Roosevelt Road. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | Large trees were blown down in Cass Lake. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cass Lake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuba (historical) | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wilkinson | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bald Eagle Center | 9.9 miles | 9 | |
| Schley | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ryan Village | 16.8 miles | 9 | |
| Baker | 18.3 miles | 10 | |
| Onigum | 18.9 miles | 10 | |
| Walker | 19.2 miles | 10 |
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 Cass Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346616 | The 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 655663. 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.





