In Washington County, Minnesota, which covers Lake Elmo, we have measured 16,602 parcels on septic and 65,893 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Lake Elmo on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Lake Elmo is a city in Washington County, Minnesota. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 44.987847, -92.909654 and its land area at 22.10 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Washington County | 0 | 16,602 | 65,893 | not published | — |
We have not yet collected septic documents from Washington County, Minnesota, so for a Lake Elmo property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 16,602 of 82,495 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Lake Elmo address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. We have not found a published online records portal for this county, which means the file is requested from the county directly rather than searched.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Washington County, Minnesota, which covers Lake Elmo, we have measured 16,602 parcels on septic and 65,893 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Lake Elmo on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Lake Elmo is in Washington County, Minnesota.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Lake Elmo’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Lake Elmo.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Washington County, Minnesota.