BlockWood Lake, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wood Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 56297. It lies near Sand Lake Bed. The Survey maps it on the Wood Lake quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWood Lake fell from 439 to 381 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 | 439 | |
| 2020 | 381 | -58 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Wood Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wood Lake in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | Crop damage was reported. |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Wood Lake | - | Several photos of the funnel near Timm Lake were provided. It was not possible to determine if there was any ground contact. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wood Lake | - | Numerous trees down; wood and steel pieces thrown around lumber yard. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Wood Lake | - | Brief touchdown in open field. Debris cloud noted. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Wood Lake | - | Shed damage. Trees uprooted. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wood Lake | - | Barn and trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wood Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanley Falls | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Lorne | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Echo | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Valley Courts | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Granite Falls | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hazel Run | 11.6 miles | 9 | |
| Normania | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Spring Creek | 17.1 miles | 9 |
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 Wood Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8032252 | 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 654335. 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.
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.