Moose Lake, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Moose Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55767. It stands on Portage River. The Survey maps it on the Moose Lake quadrangle. 2,789 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
On record in Moose Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresMoose Lake grew from 2,751 to 2,789 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 | 2,751 | |
| 2020 | 2,789 | +38 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Moose Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Moose Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
175 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Moose Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 75 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Moose Lake: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uranium Prospect No 5 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hatchery Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Syracuse Reserve St-4 | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Syracuse Reserve St-4 | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | Hematite, Magnetite | |
| Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 2 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 3 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Nemadui Tile and Pottery Pit No 1 | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose Lake in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Flood | Moose Lake | $16,000,000 | Moose Head Lake in Moose Lake overflowed its banks after the area received 6 to 8 inches of rain, flooding 30 percent of the town. One hundred and fifty homes were flooded. The schools were flooded. The town's water and sewer system were compromised. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose Lake | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose Lake | - | A power line was downed and in a ditch. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Moose Lake | - | There was a lot of standing water at the intersection of Elm Avenue and Arrowhead Lane. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Moose Lake | - | Floodwaters washed out a stretch of County Road 61 near the intersection with Mills Road. There was about 1' of standing water. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Moose Lake | - | There was flooding in front of the Moose Lake Implement and Sport Monday evening, as well the nearby areas of Fifth Street and Industrial Road. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | The hail was 0.5 to 1.0 inches in diameter at Moose Lake State Park. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose Lake | - | A 4 foot diameter tree, flag pole, and antenna on a roof were blown down. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moose 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Terrace Homes | 0.4 miles | 7 | |
| Barnum | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Kettle River | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Nemadji | 9.0 miles | 7 | |
| Mahtowa | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| Duesler | 14.0 miles | 9 | |
| Automba | 14.4 miles | 5 | |
| Corona | 14.9 miles | 7 |
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 Moose Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229019 | 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 648082. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.





