Twin Lakes, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Twin Lakes City. It lies in ZIP code area 56089. The Survey maps it on the Emmons quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTwin Lakes fell from 151 to 134 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 | 151 | |
| 2020 | 134 | -17 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Albert Lea quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Emmons quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Twin Lakes in 2003, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | TWIN LAKES |
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $5,000 | Winds were estimated at over 70-miles-an-hour near Twin Lakes and Conger. Golf ball-size hail fell in the Twin Lakes area. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Twin Lakes | $5,000 | Winds were estimated at over 70-miles-an-hour near Twin Lakes and Conger. Golf ball-size hail fell in the Twin Lakes area. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Twin Lakes | - | A storm chaser took video of a tornado near its beginning, just northwest of Twin Lakes. It moved across two farms, tree groves, and fields. At the farms, two sheds were damaged from falling trees. The tornado entered the southeast edge of Albert Lea, taking down more trees and destroying a chicken coop. A trailer was knocked over before the tornado dissipated. Drone video of the damage in the southeast side of Albert Lea was reviewed. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 80 mph. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | There was a photo of a downed tree in Twin Lakes. Time estimated via radar. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Twin Lakes | - | A citizen photographed a funnel cloud just west of Interstate 35 and County Road 85 and sent it to a broadcast meteorologist via social media. The photo was time stamped and had a specific location. It was not possible to determine whether the funnel cloud touched the ground, and there were no reports of any damage, so this was documented as a funnel cloud. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Scattered large tree branches were blown down near Twin Lakes. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | A trained spotter reported large tree limbs blown down near Albert Lea. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Twin Lakes | - | Photographed by storm chaser and witnessed by several fire department members. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Twin Lakes | - | Photographed by storm chaser and witnessed by several fire department members. |
| October 2005 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | Reported by Twin Lakes U.S. Post office employee. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmons | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Stoney Creek Estates | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Murtaugh | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Albert Lea | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Conger | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Glenville | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Armstrong | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Gordonsville | 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 Twin Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2036945 | 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 653454. 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.





