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.
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
Great Northern Railroad Depotlisted 1981- Wayzata Section Houselisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresWayzata 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,688 | |
| 2020 | 4,434 | +746 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1905 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Excelsior quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Lake Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Excelsior quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 November 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Wayzata | - | County officials reported several flooded roads around the cities of Orono and Plymouth. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Sixty foot tree toppled across power lines. Power outage occurred in the area for several hours. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | One foot diameter tree branches down. One quarter inch hail also reported. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Hundreds of trees blown down. Damage to homes and garages. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Large tree branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
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 Wayzata | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227844 | 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 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.









