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Round Lake, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Round Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56167. The Survey maps it on the Round Lake quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Round Lake within Nobles County

Population over time

2 figures

Round Lake grew from 376 to 377 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
2010376
2020377+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Round Lake in 2020, burning about 20 acres 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/undetermined1

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
18 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Nobles County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Lake in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
October 1996Tornado (F0)Round Lake$50,000no account filed
October 2020Thunderstorm WindRound Lake$1,000Several larger limbs were taken off trees by thunderstorm winds. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRound Lake-Several 3 inch diameter branches were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Heavy RainRound Lake-Rainfall of 3 inches was estimated.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Round Lake-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRound Lake-Thunderstorm winds bent a metal flag pole and caused tree damage.
July 2011Flash FloodRound Lake-Heavy rain of 5.9 inches caused flash flooding of some roads and yards.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRound Lake-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Round Lake-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
September 2004Flash FloodRound Lake-Rainfall of 5 inches caused widespread street flooding.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRound Lake-Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and crops in the area. The amount of damage could not be determined.
August 2024HailRound Lake-no account filed
April 2021HailRound Lake-no account filed
October 2013HailRound Lake-no account filed
May 2012HailRound Lake-no account filed
June 2008HailRound Lake-no account filed
April 2004HailRound Lake-no account filed
August 2003HailRound Lake-no account filed
July 2001HailRound Lake-no account filed
June 1998HailRound Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nobles 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
Worthington8.7 miles8
Org10.1 miles8
Brewster10.9 miles8
Bigelow12.0 miles8
Reading17.2 miles8
Ransom17.3 miles8
Rushmore18.4 miles8
Kinbrae19.7 miles8

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 Round LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q596049The 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 650354. 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.