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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.

North Oaks within Ramsey County

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 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,469
20205,272+803 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

20 since 1999

Regional 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/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesRED ARROW
3 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2005Arson/incendiarism53 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesCENTENIAL FIRE
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anoka County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Arsenal Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013HailNorth Oaks-Dime size hail was reported in east central Shoreview.
July 2009HailNorth Oaks-A trained spotter reported 1.5 diameter hail in northern Shoreview, along the Anoka, Ramsey County line.
July 2009HailNorth 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 2007HailNorth Oaks-Hail occurred in Shoreview.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Oaks-Six inch branch broken off in Shoreview.
July 2019HailNorth Oaks-no account filed
September 2016HailNorth Oaks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Vadnais Heights3.1 miles22
Bald Eagle3.5 miles22
Cardigan Junction3.8 miles22
White Bear Lake3.9 miles22
Shoreview4.0 miles22
Gem Lake4.0 miles22
Lake Shore Park4.2 miles22
Hoffmans Corner4.4 miles22

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 OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229230The 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.