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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.

Twin Lakes within Freeborn County

Population over time

2 figures

Twin 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.

YearPeople Change
2010151
2020134-17 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2003

Regional 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 burning1

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
2 April 2003Debris and open burning17 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictTWIN LAKES

Every fire recorded in Freeborn County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$5,000Winds were estimated at over 70-miles-an-hour near Twin Lakes and Conger. Golf ball-size hail fell in the Twin Lakes area.
June 1994HailTwin Lakes$5,000Winds were estimated at over 70-miles-an-hour near Twin Lakes and Conger. Golf ball-size hail fell in the Twin Lakes area.
June 2025Tornado (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 2024Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-There was a photo of a downed tree in Twin Lakes. Time estimated via radar.
May 2019Funnel CloudTwin 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 2013Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Scattered large tree branches were blown down near Twin Lakes.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs blown down near Albert Lea.
June 2009Funnel CloudTwin Lakes-Photographed by storm chaser and witnessed by several fire department members.
June 2009Funnel CloudTwin Lakes-Photographed by storm chaser and witnessed by several fire department members.
October 2005HailTwin Lakes-Reported by Twin Lakes U.S. Post office employee.
May 2022HailTwin Lakes-no account filed
June 2009HailTwin Lakes-no account filed
June 2008HailTwin Lakes-no account filed
June 1997HailTwin Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freeborn 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
Emmons5.3 miles10
Stoney Creek Estates5.4 miles10
Murtaugh5.7 miles10
Albert Lea6.7 miles10
Conger6.8 miles8
Glenville7.6 miles10
Armstrong7.6 miles10
Gordonsville9.5 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 Twin LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2036945The 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.