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Wayzata, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Wayzata City. It lies in ZIP code area 55391. The Survey maps it on the Excelsior quadrangle. 4,434 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Wayzata within Hennepin County

On record in Wayzata

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wayzata grew from 3,688 to 4,434 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
20103,688
20204,434+746 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wayzata between 1999 and 2004, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2003Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 November 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wayzata: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hopkins PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayzata in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2014Flash FloodWayzata-County officials reported several flooded roads around the cities of Orono and Plymouth.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWayzata-Sixty foot tree toppled across power lines. Power outage occurred in the area for several hours.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWayzata-One foot diameter tree branches down. One quarter inch hail also reported.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWayzata-Hundreds of trees blown down. Damage to homes and garages. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWayzata-Large tree branches down. Estimated windspeed.

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Woodland1.9 miles20
Groveland2.5 miles25
Ditter2.9 miles15
Deephaven3.2 miles20
Long Lake3.6 miles20
Plymouth3.7 miles21
Crystal Bay4.0 miles20
Hopkins4.1 miles25

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 WayzataAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227844The 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 653868. 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.