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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.

Ham Lake within Anoka County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ham 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.

YearPeople Change
201015,296
202016,464+1,168 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

205 since 1992

Regional 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism50
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anoka County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014LightningHam Lake1 hurtA woman was struck by lightning while watching an outdoor baseball game. She was sent to the hospital and recovered from her injuries.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Ham Lake$50,000An 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 2014LightningHam Lake$15,000A house was struck by lightning during the afternoon of Saturday, May 31st. The house sustained some damage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-An 8 inch diameter tree was blown down.
June 2014Flash FloodHam Lake-A holding pond overflowed onto Andover Road, west of Highway 65. The water was 6 inches deep on the roadway.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-Several large trees were blown down in Ham Lake near Highway 65 and County Road 16.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-A large tree was blown down near Bunker Lake Blvd, and Radisson Road, in Ham Lake.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-Several 6-7 inch diameter trees were blown down in Ham Lake, Minnesota.
August 2007HailHam Lake-Hail covering the ground at Highway 65 and 146th. Strong winds estimated around 50 mph also occurred.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-Several trees downed.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindHam Lake-A trailer home was lifted from its foundation.
July 2020HailHam Lake-no account filed
August 2019HailHam Lake-no account filed
August 2019HailHam Lake-no account filed
June 2015HailHam Lake-no account filed
June 2004HailHam Lake-no account filed
May 2002HailHam Lake-no account filed
May 2001HailHam Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Constance1.9 miles16
Andover2.5 miles20
Soderville2.7 miles13
Lake Netta3.7 miles13
Johnsville3.8 miles19
Cedar5.2 miles16
Northdale5.2 miles20
East Bethel5.4 miles13

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q987113The 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.