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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.

Pequot Lakes within Crow Wing County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Pequot 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,162
20202,395+233 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

210 since 1992

Regional 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2008Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 10Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 11Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 12Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 4Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-Numerous hailstones between three quarters of an inch to 1.1 inches were observed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Twelve inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-Several trees were blown down in Brainerd and Pequot Lakes.
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2025HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 2003HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 2003HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodPequot Lakes-no account filed
July 1996HailPequot Lakes-no account filed
August 1995HailPequot Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Jenkins3.3 miles11
Breezy Point5.0 miles12
Lakewood Court5.8 miles10
Nisswa5.8 miles11
Pequot Terrace5.8 miles11
Lake Hubert7.5 miles11
Cross Lake11.1 miles11
Swanburg11.8 miles10

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 LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q602904The 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.