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.
Population over time
2 figuresMaple 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,059 | |
| 2020 | 2,159 | +100 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Cokato quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Albion Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,671 words on this townshipHistory 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 1998Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | $25,000 | An 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 2001 | Tornado (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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | Roof blown off home. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | Trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albion Center | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Rassat | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Silver Creek | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Annandale | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| West Albion | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Highland | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Buffalo | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bufflao Manor | 8.4 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 Maple Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1003864 | 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 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.





