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.
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
William Ingersoll Estatelisted 2011
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 International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | LITTLE VERMILLION |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Superior National Forest | HERRIMAN LAKE |
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BIRDDOG |
| 11 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | HERRIMAN |
| 4 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane Lake | 2 hurt | Campers 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane Lake | 2 hurt | Two campers were injured from a tree falling on their campsite on Loon Lake. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Crane Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane Lake | - | A few trees were downed by the storm with winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane 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 2020 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | Dime to quarter size hail fell for approximately 15 minutes. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane Lake | - | Trees were knocked down over a US Forest Service Road off the Echo Trail near Moose River. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane Lake | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | Damage to seaplane on Lac La Croix. |
| August 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Crane Lake | - | Brief tornado touchdown on shore of Moose Lake. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane 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 2020 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Crane Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane 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.
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.





