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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.

Roy Lake within Clearwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Roy 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.

YearPeople Change
201012
202030+18 (+150%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

455 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism279
Debris and open burning102
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota AgencyCHILTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater 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
Big Bear Landing4.0 miles10
Bush Landing4.2 miles10
Jack Pine4.3 miles9
Bonga Landing4.9 miles10
Rice Lake5.0 miles9
Ponsford Landing5.1 miles10
Zerkel9.1 miles10
Minerva9.5 miles10

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7373058The 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.