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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.

Lake Bronson within Kittson County

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 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
2010229
2020178-51 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

61 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2012Arson/incendiarism15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake Bronson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Funnel CloudLake Bronson-The funnel cloud lasted for less than a minute.
June 2005Flash FloodLake Bronson-Fields and farm access roads were flooded along lateral ditch number two near the Kittson/Roseau county line.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLake Bronson-Tree limbs were blown down.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Lake Bronson-Several brief touchdowns occurred over the east end of Lake Bronson.
May 2000HailLake Bronson-no account filed
May 2000HailLake Bronson-no account filed
August 2000HailLake Bronson-no account filed
June 1999HailLake Bronson-no account filed
July 1996HailLake Bronson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittson 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
Halma6.1 miles10
Enok7.6 miles11
Lancaster11.3 miles11
Deerwood12.8 miles10
Karlstad13.3 miles10
Chatham (historical)13.9 miles11
Kennedy14.6 miles11
Viking Land Terrace15.1 miles11

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 BronsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230434The 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.