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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Lake Allie quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
7,254 words on this townshipThe 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 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Hail | Lakeside | $100,000 | Baseball size hail hit the Oakdale golf course, denting cars, shattering windows, and causing hundreds of pits in the greens. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | $5,000 | A 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 2023 | Hail | Lakeside | - | Pictures on social media showed hail up to the size of baseballs north of Buffalo Lake near Lake Allie. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | - | A private weather station measured a wind gust of 58 knots. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lakeside | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | - | Tree tops were snapped. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lakeside | - | Reported along the Renville/Mcleod County line. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | - | 4 inch diameter branches down. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lakeside | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churchill | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Buffalo Lake | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Hector | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bird Island | 18.4 miles | 10 | |
| Fairfax | 22.7 miles | 9 | |
| Olivia | 23.2 miles | 10 | |
| Countryview Estates | 23.4 miles | 9 | |
| Franklin | 27.1 miles | 12 |
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 Lakeside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30594129 | 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 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.





