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Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hoyt Lakes City. It lies in ZIP code area 55750. It lies near Smolich Island. The Survey maps it on the Aurora quadrangle. 2,020 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Hoyt Lakes within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoyt Lakes grew from 2,017 to 2,020 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
20102,017
20202,020+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Hoyt Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,087 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance22
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestSUFFOLK ROAD FIRE
13 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSuperior National ForestCOLBY LAKE
9 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSuperior National ForestST.LOUIS FIRE
1 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSuperior National ForestDMIR MP49.5
1 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSuperior National ForestDMIR MP 49.8
2 July 1999Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestLTV #1
9 June 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Hoyt Lakes: 35 past producers, 5 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Nickel, Copper, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free. 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
Meadow Reserve O-29Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Stephens MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreeProducer1903
Wyman Creek depositNickel, Copper, Palladium, PlatinumProspectBornite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Section 22 DepositTitanium, Metal, Iron, Nickel, CopperUnknownIlmenite, Magnetite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Skibo DepositTitanium, Metal, Iron, Nickel, CopperUnknownIlmenite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Pentlandite, Cubanite, Chalcopyrite
Adriatic MineIronPast Producer1906
Adriatic MineIronPast Producer
Erie Pit No 2IronProducer
Erie Pit No 6IronProducer
Erie Pit No 7IronProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoyt Lakes in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 hail, 1 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHoyt Lakes-A tree was reported down in Bassett Township.
May 2005HailHoyt Lakes-no account filed
September 1999HailHoyt Lakes-no account filed
June 1999HailHoyt Lakes-no account filed
August 1998HailHoyt Lakes-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wyman1.9 miles14
Allen2.1 miles14
Colby2.3 miles14
Mesaba3.4 miles14
Old Mesaba4.3 miles14
Aurora5.3 miles14
Hinsdale5.6 miles14
Skibo8.0 miles12

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 Hoyt LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230935The 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 661511. 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.