North Oaks, Minnesota
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in North Oaks City. It lies in ZIP code area 55127. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake West quadrangle. 5,272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
On record in North Oaks
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 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Oaks grew from 4,469 to 5,272 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 | 4,469 | |
| 2020 | 5,272 | +803 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1902 USGS White Bear quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS New Brighton quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of North Oaks between 1999 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | RED ARROW |
| 3 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 53 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | CENTENIAL FIRE |
| 6 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Oaks: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anoka County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Arsenal Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Oaks in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Hail | North Oaks | - | Dime size hail was reported in east central Shoreview. |
| July 2009 | Hail | North Oaks | - | A trained spotter reported 1.5 diameter hail in northern Shoreview, along the Anoka, Ramsey County line. |
| July 2009 | Hail | North Oaks | - | Several trained spotters reported quarter to half dollar size hail stones from portions of Shoreview to the area around Owasso Lake in northeastern Roseville. |
| August 2007 | Hail | North Oaks | - | Hail occurred in Shoreview. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Oaks | - | Six inch branch broken off in Shoreview. |
| July 2019 | Hail | North Oaks | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | North Oaks | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vadnais Heights | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Bald Eagle | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Cardigan Junction | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| White Bear Lake | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Shoreview | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Gem Lake | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Lake Shore Park | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Hoffmans Corner | 4.4 miles | 22 |
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 North Oaks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229230 | 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 648674. 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.












