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Elbow Lake, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Round Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56589. The Survey maps it on the Tulaby Lake quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Elbow Lake within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Elbow Lake grew from 95 to 118 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
201095
2020118+23 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Elbow Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota AgencyELBOW LAKE
16 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyANGRY
15 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota AgencyEDSEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker 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
Elbow Lake Village0.3 miles10
Pine Point14.6 miles10
Ponsford15.0 miles10
White Earth16.2 miles9
Goldenrod16.9 miles9
Two Inlets18.6 miles9
Richwood18.9 miles10
Snellman19.2 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 Elbow LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2607294The 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 1852583. 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.