BlockEast Lake, Minnesota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Spalding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55760. It stands on Wakefield Brook. The Survey maps it on the McGregor quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Mc Gregor quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Aitkin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
67 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of East Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,507 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2009 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge | NOFIREWORKS |
| 16 June 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Lake in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Lake | - | A few roof shingles were blown off a home. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | East Lake | - | Ten to 12 of water covered County Road 4 near the bridge over the Rice River. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | East Lake | - | The Aitkin County Sheriff's Office reported flooding along a stretch of County Road 13 between the communities of East Lake and Lawler. |
| September 2023 | Hail | East Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | East 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 643087. 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.