Ham Lake, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ham Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55304. It lies near Temperance Island. The Survey maps it on the Coon Lake Beach quadrangle. 16,464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.
On record in Ham Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Carlos Avery Game Farmlisted 1991
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresHam Lake grew from 15,296 to 16,464 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 | 15,296 | |
| 2020 | 16,464 | +1,168 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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 Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Isanti quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Coon Lake Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
205 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Ham Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,654 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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 | 62 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 50 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ham Lake: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anoka County Marl Beds No 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ham Lake in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2014 | Lightning | Ham Lake | 1 hurt | A woman was struck by lightning while watching an outdoor baseball game. She was sent to the hospital and recovered from her injuries. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Ham Lake | $50,000 | An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down near 155th Street Northeast, and County Highway 17 east of Ham Lake. Damage was confined to trees blown down and a few shingles ripped off homes. |
| May 2014 | Lightning | Ham Lake | $15,000 | A house was struck by lightning during the afternoon of Saturday, May 31st. The house sustained some damage. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | An 8 inch diameter tree was blown down. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Ham Lake | - | A holding pond overflowed onto Andover Road, west of Highway 65. The water was 6 inches deep on the roadway. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | Several large trees were blown down in Ham Lake near Highway 65 and County Road 16. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | A large tree was blown down near Bunker Lake Blvd, and Radisson Road, in Ham Lake. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | Several 6-7 inch diameter trees were blown down in Ham Lake, Minnesota. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | Hail covering the ground at Highway 65 and 146th. Strong winds estimated around 50 mph also occurred. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | Several trees downed. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ham Lake | - | A trailer home was lifted from its foundation. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Ham Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Ham 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constance | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Andover | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Soderville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Netta | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Johnsville | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Northdale | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| East Bethel | 5.4 miles | 13 |
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 Ham Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q987113 | 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 659991. 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.








