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Eagle Lake, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eagle Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56024. The Survey maps it on the Mankato East quadrangle. 3,278 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Eagle Lake within Blue Earth County

Population over time

2 figures

Eagle Lake grew from 2,422 to 3,278 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
20102,422
20203,278+856 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Lake in 2006, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5

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
8 November 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarism18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarism23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 October 2006Arson/incendiarism5.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blue Earth 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 Eagle Lake: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mankato Stone CenterLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vetter Main Quarry & MillLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Blue Earth County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Lake in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Heavy RainEagle Lake-Cocorahs station MN-BU-74 Eagle Lake 0.2 WSW. 72 hour storm total of 5.34 inches.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEagle Lake-Several tree branches down on power lines.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEagle Lake-Several large trees were snapped off from the top.
August 2019Funnel CloudEagle Lake-A funnel cloud was observed near Eagle Lake.
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Eagle Lake-The tornado touched down in a wooded area, where a number of trees were broken. It continued to occasionally touch down for more than two miles. The tornado was seen my multiple spotters and was briefly caught on video.
September 2016Heavy RainEagle Lake-A local trained weather observer measured 5.25 inches of rainfall near Eagle Lake between Wednesday afternoon, September 21st, to the early morning of Thursday, September 22nd.
June 2014Flash FloodEagle Lake-Several roads in the city limits of Mankato were impassable for a few hours, plus water was reported up to car bumpers in Rapidan, and the highway department closed a portion of Minnesota 66 south of Mankato due to a mudslide.
June 2014Heavy RainEagle Lake-There was a 24 hour measured rainfall amount of 5.08 inches east of Mankato. All of the rain fell late on the 17th and during the early morning hours of the 18th.
June 2014Heavy RainEagle Lake-A measured 12 hour rainfall total of 2.52 inches east of Mankato.
June 2006Flash FloodEagle Lake-Many streets flooded in town. In one location water rose up to car door length. In the northwest portion of Blue Earth County, 3 to 6 inches of water spilled onto roads from flooded ditches.
May 2004HailEagle Lake-Penny to quarter sized hail fell near Madison Lake.
June 2025HailEagle Lake-no account filed
May 2024HailEagle Lake-no account filed
July 2023HailEagle Lake-no account filed
September 2015HailEagle Lake-no account filed
May 2014HailEagle Lake-no account filed
April 2007HailEagle Lake-no account filed
July 2000HailEagle Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Eagle Lake Regency0.8 miles14
Belle Haven4.2 miles14
Madison Lake4.4 miles13
Pleasant Hill Manor4.4 miles13
Knollwood Park4.8 miles14
University Park of Mankato5.8 miles14
Saint Clair5.9 miles13
Mankato6.3 miles14

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 Eagle LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230976The 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 643025. 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.