Roy Lake, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 56557. The Survey maps it on the Roy Lake quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRoy Lake grew from 12 to 30 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 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 30 | +18 (+150%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Roy Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Lake Itasca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
455 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 455 fires within 5 miles of Roy Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,675 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 279 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 279 |
| Debris and open burning | 102 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Minnesota Agency | CHILTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bear Landing | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bush Landing | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Jack Pine | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bonga Landing | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rice Lake | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ponsford Landing | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Zerkel | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Minerva | 9.5 miles | 10 |
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 Roy Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7373058 | 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 650371. 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.




