White Bear Lake, Minnesota
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in White Bear Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 55110. It lies near Manitou Island. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake West quadrangle. 24,883 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.
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On record in White Bear 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 5 records
Cyrus B. Cobb Houselisted 1983
First National Bank of White Bearlisted 1983
E. H. Hobe House-Solheimlisted 1983
Charles P. Noyes Cottagelisted 1976- White Bear Lake Armorylisted 2019
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1902 USGS White Bear quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS New Brighton quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of White Bear Lake between 2000 and 2019, burning about 150 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | RED ARROW |
| 3 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 May 2018 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Bear Lake in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Lightning | White Bear Lake | 1 killed | One man died because of lightning strike while under a tree. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | White Bear Lake | $500,000 | Several main highways, and secondary roads had significant flooding, with up to four feet of standing water in northern Ramsey County. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Two trees down on the north side of White Bear Lake. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Multiple trees and branches down on the southern side of White Bear Lake. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | A boat was damaged on a boat lift. A few large trees were snapped off above the ground. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Several reports of multiple trees blown down in the White Bear Lake area. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Several large tree branches were blown down north of White Bear Lake. |
| May 2011 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | Hail fell just east of Goose Lake. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs blown down in White Bear Lake. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Several 6-12 inch diameter trees were blown down along Highway 61 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. |
| May 2008 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | At Highway 61 and Otter Lake Rd. |
| August 2007 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | Near Highway 96. |
| June 2005 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | Quarter sized hail fell near Highway 96 and Otter Lake Road. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Several large trees over 1 foot in diameter were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | A tree was downed onto power and telephone lines near the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Fourth Street. |
| August 2005 | Lightning | White Bear Lake | - | Lightning struck a home and a nearby tree on Whitaker Street. The bolt that struck the home damaged electrical equipment inside. The bolt that struck the tree caused the tree to split in two, and one of the pieces fell through a window. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Numerous large branches down. |
| June 2001 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | Hail occurred in the city of Shoreview. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Bear Lake | - | Numerous large trees down. Major roof damage to residence due to falling tree. Windows broken in several homes. Large signs down at Belair and County Road E. |
| May 2022 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | White Bear Lake | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Shore Park | 0.9 miles | 22 | |
| Bald Eagle | 1.2 miles | 22 | |
| Bellaire | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| White Bear Beach | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Gem Lake | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Hoffmans Corner | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| North Oaks | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Vadnais Heights | 3.9 miles | 22 |
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 White Bear Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1986513 | 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 654077. 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.










