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Wolf Lake, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wolf Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56464. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Lake quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

Wolf Lake within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Wolf Lake grew from 57 to 71 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
201057
202071+14 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Natural3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Lake in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 hail, 5 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
July 2008HailWolf Lake$20,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake$15,000Strong winds damaged a mobile home and destroyed a 76x350 foot turkey barn.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake$10,00050 trees were blown down.
June 1996HailWolf Lake$10,000no account filed
June 1996HailWolf Lake$10,000no account filed
July 2022HailWolf Lake-Corrected for location. Public report of 1.5 inch hail posted via social media.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake-Fences and trees were damaged.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake-Numerous large trees were blown down or uprooted around Wolf Lake, extending eastward from Wolf Lake and Spruce Grove townships into Runeberg and Green Valley townships. In Green Valley Township, round hay bales were rolled across fields, trees were blown down onto roofs, and a couple of small sheds were blown down.
July 2012HailWolf Lake-The time was estimated from radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake-Several large tree limbs were broken down along the east end of Wolf Lake. The time was estimated from radar.
April 2001Flash FloodWolf Lake-no account filed
May 2001HailWolf Lake-no account filed
August 2000HailWolf Lake-no account filed
August 1998HailWolf Lake-no account filed
June 1996HailWolf Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Midway5.1 miles9
Evergreen6.0 miles10
Snellman6.8 miles10
Osage9.5 miles10
Ponsford11.6 miles10
Pine Point12.2 miles10
Rochert18.2 miles11
Two Inlets18.7 miles9

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 Wolf LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227122The 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 654321. 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.