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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.

Burt Lake within Cheboygan County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional 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 burning20
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1835 - 2018
4 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1942 - 2019
4 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1945 - 2019
13 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 07
8 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1827 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blumke Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cheboygan County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBurt Lake$3,000Multiple reports of trees down on SW side of Burt Lake.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBurt Lake$3,000Several trees were downed northwest of Wolverine.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBurt Lake-Several trees toppled north of M-68.

Every storm recorded in Cheboygan County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Springwell Heights1.2 miles12
Chippewa Beach3.8 miles12
Elmhurst4.0 miles12
Kingsley Beach4.1 miles12
Wauban Beach4.2 miles12
Pittsburg Landing4.6 miles12
Indianville4.8 miles11
Wildwood5.4 miles12

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 Q136348759The 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.