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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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White Bear Lake within Ramsey County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

14 since 2000

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesRED ARROW
3 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2018Natural4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

28 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998LightningWhite Bear Lake1 killedOne man died because of lightning strike while under a tree.
July 2011Flash FloodWhite Bear Lake$500,000Several main highways, and secondary roads had significant flooding, with up to four feet of standing water in northern Ramsey County.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Two trees down on the north side of White Bear Lake.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Multiple trees and branches down on the southern side of White Bear Lake. Time estimated from radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-A boat was damaged on a boat lift. A few large trees were snapped off above the ground.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Several reports of multiple trees blown down in the White Bear Lake area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Several large tree branches were blown down north of White Bear Lake.
May 2011HailWhite Bear Lake-Hail fell just east of Goose Lake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs blown down in White Bear Lake.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Several 6-12 inch diameter trees were blown down along Highway 61 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
May 2008HailWhite Bear Lake-At Highway 61 and Otter Lake Rd.
August 2007HailWhite Bear Lake-Near Highway 96.
June 2005HailWhite Bear Lake-Quarter sized hail fell near Highway 96 and Otter Lake Road.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Several large trees over 1 foot in diameter were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-A tree was downed onto power and telephone lines near the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Fourth Street.
August 2005LightningWhite 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 2002Thunderstorm WindWhite Bear Lake-Numerous large branches down.
June 2001HailWhite Bear Lake-Hail occurred in the city of Shoreview.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWhite 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 2022HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
July 2019HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
July 2019HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
August 2007HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
August 2007HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
August 2007HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
July 2000HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
June 1999HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed
September 1999HailWhite Bear Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Lake Shore Park0.9 miles22
Bald Eagle1.2 miles22
Bellaire1.3 miles21
White Bear Beach1.5 miles21
Gem Lake2.2 miles22
Hoffmans Corner2.6 miles22
North Oaks3.9 miles22
Vadnais Heights3.9 miles22

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1986513The 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.