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Red Lake, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lower Red Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56671. It stands on Pike Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Lake OE N quadrangle. 1,786 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Red Lake within Beltrami County

Population over time

2 figures

Red Lake grew from 1,731 to 1,786 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
20101,731
20201,786+55 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

5,660 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5,660 fires within 5 miles of Red Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,083 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1277 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 burning1640
Misuse of fire by a minor1530
Arson/incendiarism1277
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1135
Recreation and ceremony37
Fireworks23
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes3
Natural2

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
9 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL 364
9 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 472
9 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 471
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL373
8 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL 363
8 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL 382
7 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL 332
7 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL 331

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami 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
Little Rock5.0 miles9
Redby5.5 miles7
Island Lake6.0 miles9
Ponemah11.3 miles8
Nebish11.5 miles8
Debs11.6 miles11
Puposky14.9 miles9
Aure15.0 miles11

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 Red LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012803The 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 649864. 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.