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Madison Lake, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Madison Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56063. The Survey maps it on the Madison Lake quadrangle. 1,247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Madison Lake within Blue Earth County

Population over time

2 figures

Madison Lake grew from 1,017 to 1,247 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
20101,017
20201,247+230 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Madison Lake between 2006 and 2012, burning about 3,008 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
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
8 November 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2006Arson/incendiarism2,909 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarism18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 October 2006Arson/incendiarism23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 October 2006Arson/incendiarism5.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blue Earth County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison Lake in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake$5,000A large tree blew down on a power line near Madison Lake, Minnesota.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake-Numerous trees were blown down north of Duck Lake, some were blocking county road 26.
August 2019Funnel CloudMadison Lake-A funnel cloud was observed near Madison Lake.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake-A NWS storm survey concluded that downburst winds caused damage to large trees and power lines north of Madison Lake.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake-Several trees toppled on south side of Lake Washington.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMadison Lake-Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2019HailMadison Lake-no account filed
July 2016HailMadison Lake-no account filed
May 2015HailMadison Lake-no account filed
May 2003HailMadison Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Pleasant Hill Manor0.0 miles13
Eagle Lake4.4 miles14
Eagle Lake Regency4.8 miles14
Knollwood Park7.8 miles14
Belle Haven8.2 miles14
Saint Clair8.7 miles13
Benning9.5 miles14
University Park of Mankato10.0 miles14

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 Madison LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1819561The 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 647362. 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.

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.