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East Gull Lake, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in East Gull Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Gull Lake quadrangle. 986 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

East Gull Lake within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

East Gull Lake fell from 1,004 to 986 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
20101,004
2020986-18 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of East Gull Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 457 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Gull Lake: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 20Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Dixon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ylinen Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Gull Lake in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 5 hail, 5 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Gull Lake-A dock was damaged by when it was slammed by wind-whipped boats on the western end of Gull Lake.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Gull Lake-The reading was measured from a cartop anemometer.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Gull Lake-There was a tree down on Agate Lake Road.
September 2014HailEast Gull Lake-Most of the hail was pea-sized.
September 2014HailEast Gull Lake-The largest hailstones were the size of quarters with a lot of penny size hailstones covering the ground.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEast Gull Lake-Six very large red pine trees were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Gull Lake-Numerous trees were blown down. A barn and tin shed were blown down.
August 2015HailEast Gull Lake-no account filed
July 2009HailEast Gull Lake-no account filed
June 1999HailEast Gull 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
Lake Shore5.4 miles15
Sylvan5.7 miles17
Pillager8.3 miles17
Casino9.9 miles10
Bridgeman12.0 miles10
Graff15.2 miles9
Leader17.9 miles10
Ellis19.5 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 East Gull LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003809The 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 643080. 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.