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Lakeside, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Boon Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55314. The Survey maps it on the Lake Allie quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Lakeside within Renville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

7,254 words on this township

The History of Renville County, Minnesota, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Boon Lake Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Boon Lake Township - 7,254 words.

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 hail, 4 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
August 2023HailLakeside$100,000Baseball size hail hit the Oakdale golf course, denting cars, shattering windows, and causing hundreds of pits in the greens.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLakeside$5,000A large farm north of Buffalo Lake, Minnesota, received significant damage to their grain bins. Also, several large branches were blown down, with six power poles damaged near the area.
August 2023HailLakeside-Pictures on social media showed hail up to the size of baseballs north of Buffalo Lake near Lake Allie.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLakeside-A private weather station measured a wind gust of 58 knots.
May 2016HailLakeside-A storm chaser video taped an area of continuous hail on the Meeker, Renville County line, near Boon Lake. The largest stone was golf ball based on a measurement on the video. The URL site is www.stormchasingvideo.com.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLakeside-Tree tops were snapped.
May 2000HailLakeside-Reported along the Renville/Mcleod County line.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLakeside-4 inch diameter branches down.
May 2016HailLakeside-no account filed
September 2014HailLakeside-no account filed
September 2014HailLakeside-no account filed
May 2014HailLakeside-no account filed
June 2006HailLakeside-no account filed
August 2005HailLakeside-no account filed
May 2002HailLakeside-no account filed
May 2000HailLakeside-no account filed
July 1997HailLakeside-no account filed
June 1997HailLakeside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Renville 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
Churchill6.0 miles9
Buffalo Lake7.4 miles9
Hector10.4 miles9
Bird Island18.4 miles10
Fairfax22.7 miles9
Olivia23.2 miles10
Countryview Estates23.4 miles9
Franklin27.1 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 LakesideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30594129The 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 646410. 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.

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.