Grand Lake, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Industrial Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. The Survey maps it on the Saginaw quadrangle.

Grand Lake within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Grand Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	50
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
6 September 2005	Natural	1.7 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 Grand Lake: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Arrowhead Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Dobbis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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	Grand Lake	-	Multiple photos were received of numerous large trees over 1 foot in diameter that were down or bent over. Some of the trees were uprooted and others were snapped near the base.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Lake	-	Numerous trees were reported down across roads and power lines by a local fire department.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Lake	-	Several 4-inch diameter branches were blown down.
September 2007	Lightning	Grand Lake	-	A garage in Grand Lake Township was destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning.

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saginaw	1.4 miles	8
Burnett	3.8 miles	7
Harnell Park	4.1 miles	10
Twig	5.8 miles	10
Culver	6.3 miles	7
Independence	6.3 miles	10
Twig Station	6.5 miles	10
Brookston	7.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661376. 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.