Lake Bronson, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake Bronson City. It lies in ZIP code area 56734. The Survey maps it on the Lake Bronson quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
On record in Lake Bronson
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 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresLake Bronson fell from 229 to 178 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -51 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Karlstad quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lake Bronson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
61 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Lake Bronson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,670 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 23 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 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 Lake Bronson: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Bronson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Bronson in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Lake Bronson | - | The funnel cloud lasted for less than a minute. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Lake Bronson | - | Fields and farm access roads were flooded along lateral ditch number two near the Kittson/Roseau county line. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Bronson | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Bronson | - | Several brief touchdowns occurred over the east end of Lake Bronson. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Bronson | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Lake Bronson | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lake Bronson | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Lake Bronson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halma | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Enok | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lancaster | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Deerwood | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Karlstad | 13.3 miles | 10 | |
| Chatham (historical) | 13.9 miles | 11 | |
| Kennedy | 14.6 miles | 11 | |
| Viking Land Terrace | 15.1 miles | 11 |
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 Lake Bronson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230434 | 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 646332. 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.







