Squaw Lake, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Max Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56681. The Survey maps it on the Dunbar Lake quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.
On record in Squaw Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Old Cut Foot Sioux Ranger Stationlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresSquaw Lake fell from 107 to 98 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 | 107 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -9 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1919 USGS Max quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Squaw Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Squaw Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Squaw Lake between 1994 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | DIXON |
| 24 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Chippewa National Forest | LOST |
| 7 May 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | DUMP |
| 25 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | MAX |
| 24 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Chippewa National Forest | COUNTY ROAD 4 |
| 23 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | HAY BALE |
| 21 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.3 acres | Chippewa National Forest | MAX |
| 18 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | DUNBAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Squaw Lake in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Large trees were blown across a road. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | Some accumulation of hail occurred with this storm. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Squaw Lake | - | A waterspout touched down on the northwest part of Lake Winnibigoshish on the afternoon of May 26th. The waterspout traveled northeast for 10 minutes and was associated with a thundershower in the area. No damage was reported.| |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Trees and power lines were blown down across western Itasca County. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Many power lines were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Squaw Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227999 | 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 658441. 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.






