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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.

Cass Lake within Cass County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cass 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.

YearPeople Change
2010770
2020675-95 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

260 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism95
Debris and open burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony22
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National Forestnot named
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreChippewa National ForestSWEDE HILL
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestSO # 2
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beltrami County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-A tree was down on camper at a campground.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-A gust of 59 mph was recorded by Mesonet station CASM5 Cass Lake RAWS.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-A large tree was uprooted at the Cass Lake rest area on US2.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Photos were received from the Chippewa National Forest of numerous small to medium trees down over forest roads.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-The siding on the Palace Casino in Cass Lake was torn off by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Trees as large as eighteen inches in diameter were blown down. Some trees were also uprooted.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Trees were blown down on Tract 33.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-The gust was recorded by the Cass Lake remote automatic weather station.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-A 3 diameter branch was down and partially blocking a driveway.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCass 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 2012Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Widespread severe tree damage was reported along US 2.
June 2011HailCass Lake-Hail, up to quarter size, covered the ground.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-This was the eastward extension of a wind-damage path of downed trees from Beltrami County, along Roosevelt Road.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-Large trees were blown down in Cass Lake.
June 2019HailCass Lake-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-no account filed
April 2002HailCass Lake-no account filed
July 2001HailCass Lake-no account filed
July 1999HailCass Lake-no account filed
June 1999HailCass Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCass Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Cuba (historical)4.5 miles9
Wilkinson9.0 miles8
Bald Eagle Center9.9 miles9
Schley10.0 miles9
Ryan Village16.8 miles9
Baker18.3 miles10
Onigum18.9 miles10
Walker19.2 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 Cass LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346616The 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.