Burt Lake, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tuscarora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49706. It stands on Hasler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burt Lake quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
On record in Burt Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Faunce-McMichael Farmlisted 1990
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Wolverine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Burt Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Burt Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1835 - 2018 |
| 4 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1942 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1945 - 2019 |
| 13 July 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHEBOYGAN 07 |
| 8 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1827 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burt Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blumke Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burt Lake in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt Lake | $3,000 | Multiple reports of trees down on SW side of Burt Lake. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt Lake | $3,000 | Several trees were downed northwest of Wolverine. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt Lake | - | Several trees toppled north of M-68. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springwell Heights | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chippewa Beach | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Elmhurst | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Kingsley Beach | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Wauban Beach | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Pittsburg Landing | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Indianville | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Wildwood | 5.4 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q136348759 | 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 1617468. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.




