Voting is at mostly churches. There are still lots of apartments. There is a trailer park on old hwy 8 maybe near the DQ and one further north. I heard there used to be some agriculture, maybe rhubarb? When did the stockyards burn down? Maybe they used the manure for the crops. I had not heard of those small lakes.
There is Moundsview HS and Irondale HS. IMO MVHS enjoys a good reputation because of the students and parents. Asians and Indians. The teachers and admin mostly suck. They know how to piss away money. Irondale HS has an OK shop program and an awesome teacher, Mr. B. They bus kids from MVHS to Irondale for shop. Growing up in Madison WI I had heard of the Irondale band but assumed they were from the Iron Range.
Irondale won some drum line competition recently but I hate modern drum lines.
It seemed to me they had too many fire trucks but some former volunteer explained it. There was money and land for a second firehouse but the fire dept turned it down and stayed with a single fire house. So if they need to work on the trucks they have spares. Much of the work is done by city mechanics. The volunteers have to live within 6 minutes of the firehouse and make 66% of the calls each quarter. If they fall behind they have 1 quarter to catch up.
They go to the fire house until they fill up the crew for a truck then it leaves. Then repeat. The fire trucks and police dept use 10th St NW and the main street and old hwy 8 a lot. The police speed like crazy but no accidents that I heard of.