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.
Population over time
2 figuresFifty 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 387 | |
| 2020 | 443 | +56 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Cross Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
93 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Emily Shawmut Res- West | Iron, Manganese | Prospect |
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fifty Lakes | - | Three sections of dock were blown into Goodrich Lake by the wind. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fifty Lakes | - | An 18 diameter oak tree was down and blocking Butterfield Beach Road, approximately 0.8 miles north of County Highway 1. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fifty Lakes | - | Some tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Fifty Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Fifty Lakes | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Fifty Lakes | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Beach | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Swanburg | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cross Lake | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Emily | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Lakewood Court | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Mission | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Breezy Point | 10.7 miles | 12 | |
| Little Pine | 12.3 miles | 10 |
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 Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q929167 | The 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.





