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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.

Squaw Lake within Itasca County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Squaw 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.

YearPeople Change
2010107
202098-9 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

31 since 1994

Regional 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2006Naturalunder an acreChippewa National ForestDIXON
24 July 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresChippewa National ForestLOST
7 May 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestDUMP
25 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestMAX
24 May 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresChippewa National ForestCOUNTY ROAD 4
23 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestHAY BALE
21 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresChippewa National ForestMAX
18 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestDUNBAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-Large trees were blown across a road.
July 2008HailSquaw Lake-Some accumulation of hail occurred with this storm.
May 2007Tornado (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 2006Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-Large tree branches were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-Trees and power lines were blown down across western Itasca County.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-Many power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-Several trees were blown down.
June 2020HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
June 2014HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1999HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1999HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1998HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-no account filed
June 1998HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindSquaw Lake-no account filed
June 1996HailSquaw Lake-no account filed
July 1996HailSquaw Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Max3.8 miles11
Dunbar5.0 miles12
Oslund5.7 miles12
Dora Lake8.9 miles12
Rosy9.2 miles11
Inger9.7 miles9
Alvwood9.7 miles11
Wirt11.5 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 Squaw LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227999The 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.