BlockBefore

East Beaver Bay, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Beaver Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55601. It lies near Wieland Island. The Survey maps it on the Silver Bay quadrangle. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

East Beaver Bay within Lake County

On record in East Beaver Bay

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

7 surveys from 11 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of East Beaver Bay between 1992 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2013Railroad operations and maintenance9.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2013Railroad operations and maintenance3.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2016Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of East Beaver Bay: 3 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E.W. Davis WorksIronProducer
Northshore I Pellet PlantIronPlant
Northshore Mining Ii Pellet PlantIronPlant
Silver Bay PlantIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Beaver Bay in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Beaver Bay-Trees were reported down along and across Highway 61 between Ionas Beach and East Beaver Bay along with trees down in Silver Bay.
August 2016Flash FloodEast Beaver Bay-Thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of the North Shore. There was flooding over Highway 61 between mile markers 53 and 54.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Beaver Bay1.2 miles11
Silver Bay2.3 miles11
Lax Lake5.4 miles11
Illgen City7.4 miles11
Finland10.3 miles11
Kennedy Landing10.4 miles11
Bell Harbor11.3 miles11
Little Marais Postoffice11.8 miles11

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 East Beaver BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5327839The 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 656085. 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.