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Spring Lake Park, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Spring Lake Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 55432. The Survey maps it on the New Brighton quadrangle. 7,188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Spring Lake Park within Anoka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake Park between 1998 and 2019, burning about 726 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Other causesunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning6.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Spring Lake Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anoka County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Arsenal Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake Park in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park$600,000Roof ripped off apartment building.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park$25,000There were numerous reports of trees blown down from Fridley, to Spring Lake Park. In addition, two trees landed on a mobile home in Fridley.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park$500A street sign was damaged, and a large tree was blown down in a grocery store parking lot.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park-In addition to the measured 55 knot wind gust at the Anoka airport, the local emergency manager reported numerous downed trees and power lines across the southern portion of Anoka County, south and west of the airport.
June 2015HailSpring Lake Park-Several reports of large hail occurred around the cities of Spring Lake Park, Fridley and Columbia Heights. The largest hail stone was ping pong size.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park-Damage occurred at 72599 240th St. One tree felled over main entrance public access road. Many branches severed from area trees. Both dugouts at baseball field were damaged. Several trees felled near baseball field. Large branch felled over Western road leading to park.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park-A large tree was blown onto a roof causing considerable damage.
May 2008HailSpring Lake Park-no account filed
May 2007HailSpring Lake Park-no account filed
June 2005HailSpring Lake Park-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Fridley2.0 miles21
Coon Rapids2.8 miles21
Blaine3.7 miles19
Hilltop3.8 miles22
Oak Park4.4 miles20
Coon Creek4.5 miles20
Lexington4.6 miles19
Columbia Heights4.8 miles21

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 Spring Lake ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927062The 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 652480. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.