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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.

Moose Lake within Carlton County

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 figures

Moose 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,751
20202,789+38 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

175 since 1992

Regional 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 burning75
Equipment and vehicle use38
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning2.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Uranium Prospect No 5UraniumOccurrence
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hatchery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Syracuse Reserve St-4Iron, ManganesePast Producer
Syracuse Reserve St-4Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 2ClayPast Producer
Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 3ClayPast Producer
Nemadui Tile and Pottery Pit No 1ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012FloodMoose Lake$16,000,000Moose 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 1995Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake$2,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake-A power line was downed and in a ditch.
July 2016Flash FloodMoose Lake-There was a lot of standing water at the intersection of Elm Avenue and Arrowhead Lane.
July 2016Flash FloodMoose Lake-Floodwaters washed out a stretch of County Road 61 near the intersection with Mills Road. There was about 1' of standing water.
July 2016Flash FloodMoose 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 2011HailMoose Lake-The hail was 0.5 to 1.0 inches in diameter at Moose Lake State Park.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake-A 4 foot diameter tree, flag pole, and antenna on a roof were blown down.
May 2022HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailMoose Lake-no account filed
June 2018HailMoose Lake-no account filed
June 2018HailMoose Lake-no account filed
July 2017HailMoose Lake-no account filed
June 2012HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2011HailMoose Lake-no account filed
May 2010HailMoose Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake-no account filed
August 1997HailMoose Lake-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMoose Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Hillside Terrace Homes0.4 miles7
Barnum5.1 miles7
Kettle River6.7 miles7
Nemadji9.0 miles7
Mahtowa10.8 miles7
Duesler14.0 miles9
Automba14.4 miles5
Corona14.9 miles7

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229019The 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.