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Fifty Lakes, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Fifty Lakes City. It lies in ZIP code area 56448. The Survey maps it on the Cross Lake quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Fifty Lakes within Crow Wing County

Population over time

2 figures

Fifty Lakes grew from 387 to 443 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
2010387
2020443+56 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Fifty Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing 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 Fifty Lakes: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Emily Shawmut Res- WestIron, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fifty Lakes in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 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 2022Thunderstorm WindFifty Lakes-Three sections of dock were blown into Goodrich Lake by the wind.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindFifty Lakes-An 18 diameter oak tree was down and blocking Butterfield Beach Road, approximately 0.8 miles north of County Highway 1.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFifty Lakes-Some tree branches were blown down.
June 2012HailFifty Lakes-no account filed
June 1998HailFifty Lakes-no account filed
September 1996HailFifty Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Manhattan Beach2.3 miles10
Swanburg4.4 miles10
Cross Lake5.6 miles11
Emily7.2 miles11
Lakewood Court9.1 miles10
Mission10.7 miles10
Breezy Point10.7 miles12
Little Pine12.3 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 Fifty LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q929167The 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 643626. 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.