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Rice Lake, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Rice Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55803. The Survey maps it on the Arnold quadrangle. 4,112 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Rice Lake within St. Louis County

Population over time

3 figures

Rice Lake fell from 4,139 to 4,112 between 2000 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
20004,139
20104,095-44 (-1%)
20204,112+17 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Rice Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2008Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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
Arnold1.5 miles15
Woodland3.7 miles17
Hunters Park5.0 miles17
Lester Park6.3 miles17
Duluth Heights6.6 miles15
Duluth7.7 miles17
Fredenberg7.8 miles14
Lakewood8.2 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 Rice LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1911872The 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 2783851. 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.