Red Lake Falls, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Red Lake Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 56750. It stands on Clearwater River. The Survey maps it on the Red Lake Falls quadrangle. 1,339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
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On record in Red Lake Falls
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 1 record
Red Lake County Courthouselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresRed Lake Falls fell from 1,427 to 1,339 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 | 1,427 | |
| 2020 | 1,339 | -88 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1918 USGS Red Lake Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Red Lake Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Red Lake Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Red Lake Falls in 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Glacial Ridge | DITCH 64 |
Storms near this place
49 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Lake Falls in 49 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 26 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | $110,000 | An airplane hanger and a crop dusting airplane were destroyed by the strong wind. |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Red Lake Falls | $100,000 | Lightning hit the county courthouse, which also houses the sheriff's department. The department's computers, phone lines, and 911 system were damaged. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | $25,000 | A pole barn sustained roof and door damage and a communications tower was blown over. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | $20,000 | Eight windows in a house, 2 garage windows, and a car window were broken by the large hail. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | $15,000 | A 3 stall garage was destroyed. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | $5,000 | Several sections of farm land were flooded by excessive rainfall. A few farm access roads were also under water. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Red Lake Falls | $2,000 | The tornado continued intermittently along the 2.5 mile damage track. Numerous large tree branches were broken off in shelterbelts along the track and large hay bales were tumbled around. Peak winds were estimated at about 70 mph. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | $2,000 | Street flooding was reported in Red Lake Falls. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | $200 | A large tree was blown down. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Roofing panels blown off 3 buildings on the west side of Red Lake Falls. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | Hail fell for 15 minutes with largest hail stones up to 2 inches in Red Lake Falls. Time estimated by radar. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | The wind gust was estimated. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Many large tree branches were blown down. Large sections of roofing were peeled off a warehouse on the south side of town. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Multiple trees were blown down in Red Lake Falls, knocking out power to some areas. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | Mainly dime to nickel sized hail fell along with a few quarter sized hailstones. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Numerous large tree branches were broken down and several trees were uprooted by violent wind bursts. The winds were accompanied by a steady downpour of rain. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Many large trees were snapped off or uprooted. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | The large hail broke windows and damaged siding. Crop damage was also reported. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | - | Numerous rural roads were under water. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | - | Roads were washed out by the heavy rains. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | - | Street flooding was reported. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | A 77 mph wind gust was reported, with many trees blown down. The roof of a manufacturing building was torn off and several grain bins were damaged. 2000 customers were without power as 50 power poles were downed. Another building roof was torn off and thrown 300 feet into another building. A mobile home was destroyed. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | Large branches were broken off by the wind. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Red Lake Falls | - | Several roads were flooded due to the heavy rain. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Red Lake Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Red Lake Falls | - | 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.
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 Lake Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q990994 | 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 649866. 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.
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.






