Local lore in Canosia Township and Pike Lake, Minnesota

• People say Pike Lake, not Canosia. The township name appears on legal documents; the lake name is what everyone uses in conversation.
• Four Corners is a crossroads, not a downtown, and it is the township's business district all the same.
• There are four lakes inside the boundary. Pike, Caribou, Fish and Wild Rice give the township 4.40 square miles of water.
• The elementary school is inside the township. Pike Lake Elementary at 5682 Martin Road, which the Census geocoder confirms sits in Canosia, makes this the rare rural township in this guide with its own school.
• The school district is Proctor and the shopping is Hermantown, so township families face two directions at once.
• The jets are part of life on the southeast side. The 148th Fighter Wing flies F-16s from the base next to the airport, and locals know the training schedule better than the flight schedule.
• Cirrus Aircraft builds airplanes eight minutes away. Its headquarters and main manufacturing are on the airport grounds.
• A lot of the houses started as cabins. The median build year of 1985 hides a long run of seasonal properties converted to year-round use, which is the single most important thing to check on an older lake house here.

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