BlockBefore

Crane Lake, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Crane Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55725. It stands on Camp Forty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crane Lake quadrangle.

Crane Lake within St. Louis County

On record in Crane 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 1 record

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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Crane Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2006Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestLITTLE VERMILLION
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Natural1.2 acresSuperior National ForestHERRIMAN LAKE
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestBIRDDOG
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestHERRIMAN
4 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2011Natural2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1997Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crane Lake in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake2 hurtCampers were injured by a tree falling on their tent at a campsite on Lady Boot Bay on Lac La Croix Lake. One young teenager was seriously injured with a broken pelvis and a dislocated shoulder. A middle-aged man suffered a dislocated shoulder.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake2 hurtTwo campers were injured from a tree falling on their campsite on Loon Lake.
July 2014FloodCrane Lake$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-A few trees were downed by the storm with winds estimated at 60 mph.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-On the morning of July 19, 2021, between 10 and 10:30am CDT, a line of sub-severe thunderstorms caused a canoe with two occupants to capsize. Neither were wearing life jackets and one of the two occupants drowned. The incident occurred on Loon Lake east of Crane Lake, Minnesota, within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Estimated wind speeds along the line of storms were 25-30 mph based on nearby observations.
August 2020HailCrane Lake-Dime to quarter size hail fell for approximately 15 minutes.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-Trees were knocked down over a US Forest Service Road off the Echo Trail near Moose River.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 1995HailCrane Lake-Damage to seaplane on Lac La Croix.
August 1995Tornado (F0)Crane Lake-Brief tornado touchdown on shore of Moose Lake.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-A line of thunderstorms with an isolated intense downdraft uprooted several medium-size young trees near the town of Crane Lake. A few of the trees fell on, and damaged, two automobiles.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-Public report of estimated 60-70 mph winds near Bear Island. The waves were so large, that they were crashing over the tops of boats.
August 2020HailCrane Lake-no account filed
September 2017HailCrane Lake-no account filed
May 2006HailCrane Lake-no account filed
May 1999HailCrane Lake-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCrane Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Buyck10.2 miles7
Kettle Falls18.2 miles9
Cusson22.0 miles7
Ash Lake22.9 miles7
Orr23.4 miles7
Glendale24.3 miles7
Wakemup25.0 miles11
Gheen26.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661065. 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.

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.