Pequot Lakes, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Pequot Lakes City. It lies in ZIP code area 56472. The Survey maps it on the Nisswa quadrangle. 2,395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.
On record in Pequot Lakes
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 3 records
H. H. Broach Houselisted 1980
A.L. Cole Memorial Buildinglisted 2004
Pequot Fire Lookout Towerlisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresPequot Lakes grew from 2,162 to 2,395 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 | 2,162 | |
| 2020 | 2,395 | +233 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Nisswa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
210 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Pequot Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 | 104 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pequot Lakes: 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 10 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 11 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 12 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 2 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 3 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 4 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pequot Lakes in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | Numerous hailstones between three quarters of an inch to 1.1 inches were observed. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Twelve inch diameter trees were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Several trees were blown down in Brainerd and Pequot Lakes. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jenkins | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Breezy Point | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lakewood Court | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Nisswa | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pequot Terrace | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Hubert | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Cross Lake | 11.1 miles | 11 | |
| Swanburg | 11.8 miles | 10 |
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 Pequot Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q602904 | 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 649276. 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.





