Field notes
Sources
Every number on this site comes from one of these. Each shows the date it was read. Lot rents are the current rents for each community.
The communities
- MHVillage, Shafer Terrace community listing, and the MHVillage pages of 11 nearby communities read 2026-09-28
- MLS listing 6765064, a home in Shafer Terrace (sold 2025-09-15) read 2026-09-28
- Coldwell Banker listing, a home in Shafer Terrace (sold 2026-02-20) read 2026-09-28
- Shafer Terrace website, archived January 2019 (rental sites page) read 2026-09-28
- Realtor.com property records, Redfield Cir, Shafer, MN 55074 read 2026-09-28
- USGS place name via TopoQuest, Redfield Court Mobile Home Park read 2026-09-28
- Chisago County property records, owner search (parcels 18.00042.00 and 18.00038.00) read 2026-09-30
Community documents (not online; ask George for a copy)
- Shafer Terrace lot lease, community rules and emergency plan (the community's current lease packet) read 2026-10-15
- Redfield Court lot lease and community rules (the community's current lease packet) read 2026-10-15
- Shafer Terrace overflow parking and storage agreement (addendum to the lot lease) read 2026-10-15
- PetScreening notices for Shafer Terrace (pet profiles and assistance-animal requests, 2026) read 2026-10-15
- Minnesota Department of Health, Shafer Terrace park inspection report, June 30, 2026 (no orders issued) read 2026-10-15
Around Shafer
- Chisago Lakes Visitors Bureau, home page (the towns of the Chisago Lakes area) read 2026-10-01
- Chisago County, Swedish Immigrant Regional Trail read 2026-09-28
- TrailLink, Swedish Immigrant Regional Trail (6.7-mile segment) read 2026-09-28
- MNopedia, Interstate State Park read 2026-09-28
- Franconia Sculpture Park read 2026-09-28
- National Park Service, St. Croix National Scenic Riverway read 2026-09-28
- Chisago Lakes Water Trail, About read 2026-09-28
- Wild Mountain read 2026-09-28
- Shafer, Minnesota (2020 census population) read 2026-09-28
- Chisago County, Transportation and Employers (undated county PDF) read 2026-09-28
- Drive times: OSRM routing from the Shafer Terrace entrance, free-flow (no traffic) read 2026-09-28
- Lindstrom, Minnesota (2020 census population, lakes, U.S. 8, motto) read 2026-10-15
- Chisago Lakes Visitors Bureau, Brewing history: Lindström's iconic coffee pot water tower (April 17, 2026) read 2026-10-15
- Drive times: OSRM routing from Lindstrom (city point from OpenStreetMap Nominatim) to each community and place, free-flow (no traffic) read 2026-10-15
- U.S. Route 8 (begins at I-35 in Forest Lake; runs through Chisago City, Lindstrom, Center City and Shafer) read 2026-10-15
- Drive times: OSRM routing from Forest Lake (the comparison's OpenStreetMap city point) to the towns on U.S. 8 and the Shafer Terrace entrance, free-flow (no traffic) read 2026-10-15
- Chisago Lakes School District (ISD 2144), About us read 2026-09-28
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, unified school district at each community's entrance (Chisago Lakes School District) read 2026-10-15
Money and rent
- RentCafe, North Branch, MN average rent (updated June 2, 2026) read 2026-09-28
- RentCafe, Forest Lake, MN average rent (updated June 2, 2026) read 2026-09-28
- RentCafe, Forest Lake, MN high-end apartments (updated Sept 28, 2026) read 2026-09-28
- Zillow Rental Manager, Lindstrom, MN rental market trends (last updated Oct 13, 2026) read 2026-10-15
- Minnesota Department of Revenue, Homeowner's Homestead Credit Refund read 2026-09-28
- Minnesota Department of Revenue, 2025 Form M1PR Homestead Credit Refund instructions (updated June 5, 2026) read 2026-10-08
- Minnesota Statutes 2025, section 290A.19 (park owner's rent certificate) read 2026-10-08
- Minnesota Department of Revenue, Renter's Credit FAQs read 2026-09-28
- CFPB, Manufactured Housing Finance: New Insights from the HMDA Data (May 2021) read 2026-09-28
- CFPB, Find a housing counselor read 2026-09-28
Law
- Minnesota Statutes 2025, section 327C.02, subdivision 5 read 2026-09-28
- Minnesota Statutes, section 327C.07 (sales of homes in the park) read 2026-09-28
- Minnesota Statutes 2025, section 327C.03 (fees, deposits, pet fees) read 2026-10-01
- Minnesota Statutes, section 327C.06 (rent increases) read 2026-10-01
- Minnesota Attorney General, Manufactured Home Parks handbook: Fees read 2026-10-01
Maps
- Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) read 2026-09-28
- Contour lines: Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model, sampled through Open-Meteo read 2026-09-28
How the comparisons were made
The 3-of-12 storage and 2-of-12 street-width counts use the MHVillage pages of the 12 manufactured-home communities nearest Shafer (Shafer Terrace plus these listings: 27926, 16084, 131179, 16232, 37787, 16293, 30371, 16082, 93569, 16287, 31074, 32582). Storage and street width are as each community reports them.
Drive times come from OSRM routing from the Shafer Terrace entrance at free-flow speed, so real trips, especially at rush hour, take longer. The elevation in the page header, about 945 feet, is read from the same elevation model as the contour lines.
The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). It's an illustration, not a survey.
The communities on mobile home parks near Forest Lake are cited row by row on that page, with the date each listing was read.
The same goes for mobile home parks in Lindstrom, plus its Lindstrom rent figure and town facts. The U.S. 8 drive from Forest Lake uses the same free-flow routing, from the Forest Lake city point.