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Maple Lake, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Maple Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55358. The Survey maps it on the Albion Center quadrangle. 2,159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Maple Lake within Wright County

Population over time

2 figures

Maple Lake grew from 2,059 to 2,159 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
20102,059
20202,159+100 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

4,671 words on this township

History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Maple Lake City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Maple Lake City - 4,671 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Maple Lake between 1998 and 2013, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1998Natural3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Lake in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake$25,000An isolated microburst hit the Maple Lake area when scattered thunderstorms rolled through central Minnesota. Winds lifted and overturned a construction trailer at Holy Cross Church. One man inside the trailer escaped without any injuries. The church was untouched.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Maple Lake-Touched down on Maple Lake, drawing water up into a condensation funnel. Tornado made it to shore and flipped a few docks and boats, and knocked down a few trees.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-Roof blown off home. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-Three airplanes and two hangars destroyed at Maple Lake airport. Eight foot silo blown onto barn killing 18 cows and 6 steers. Farmstead damage estimated at $150,000. Numerous trees down in town. Roof damage to senior citizen apartment building.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-Trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds. Brown County 5 E Sleepy Eye,19,1456CST,,,0,0,2,?,Hail (1.00)
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-Trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2025HailMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailMaple Lake-no account filed
April 2021HailMaple Lake-no account filed
July 2016HailMaple Lake-no account filed
August 2014HailMaple Lake-no account filed
September 2013HailMaple Lake-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2008HailMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2008HailMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2008HailMaple Lake-no account filed
May 2008HailMaple Lake-no account filed
August 2007HailMaple Lake-no account filed
June 2002HailMaple Lake-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudMaple Lake-no account filed
June 1998HailMaple Lake-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindMaple Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Albion Center5.2 miles10
Rassat5.3 miles12
Silver Creek6.0 miles15
Annandale6.9 miles10
West Albion7.4 miles10
Highland7.5 miles10
Buffalo7.8 miles12
Bufflao Manor8.4 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 Maple LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003864The 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 647487. 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.