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.
Population over time
2 figuresHoyt 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,017 | |
| 2020 | 2,020 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1949 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
66 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | SUFFOLK ROAD FIRE |
| 13 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Superior National Forest | COLBY LAKE |
| 9 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Superior National Forest | ST.LOUIS FIRE |
| 1 August 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Superior National Forest | DMIR MP49.5 |
| 1 August 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Superior National Forest | DMIR MP 49.8 |
| 2 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | LTV #1 |
| 9 June 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 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
10 of 44 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Reserve O-29 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| Stephens Mine | Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free | Producer | 1903 | |
| Wyman Creek deposit | Nickel, Copper, Palladium, Platinum | Prospect | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Section 22 Deposit | Titanium, Metal, Iron, Nickel, Copper | Unknown | Ilmenite, Magnetite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Skibo Deposit | Titanium, Metal, Iron, Nickel, Copper | Unknown | Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Pentlandite, Cubanite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Adriatic Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1906 | |
| Adriatic Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Erie Pit No 2 | Iron | Producer | ||
| Erie Pit No 6 | Iron | Producer | ||
| Erie Pit No 7 | Iron | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoyt Lakes | - | A tree was reported down in Bassett Township. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hoyt Lakes | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Hoyt Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hoyt Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Hoyt 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.
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 Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230935 | 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 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.







