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.
Population over time
2 figuresMadison 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,017 | |
| 2020 | 1,247 | +230 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1950 USGS Mankato East quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Mankato East quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Madison Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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/incendiarism | 8 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 26 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,909 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 18 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 23 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 October 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | $5,000 | A large tree blew down on a power line near Madison Lake, Minnesota. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | - | Numerous trees were blown down north of Duck Lake, some were blocking county road 26. |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Madison Lake | - | A funnel cloud was observed near Madison Lake. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | - | A NWS storm survey concluded that downburst winds caused damage to large trees and power lines north of Madison Lake. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | - | Several trees toppled on south side of Lake Washington. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison Lake | - | Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Madison Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Madison Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Madison Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Madison Lake | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill Manor | 0.0 miles | 13 | |
| Eagle Lake | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Eagle Lake Regency | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Knollwood Park | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Belle Haven | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Clair | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Benning | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| University Park of Mankato | 10.0 miles | 14 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1819561 | 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 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.







