Canadian Lakes, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Morton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49346. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Altona quadrangle. 3,202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCanadian Lakes grew from 1,922 to 3,202 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,922 | |
| 2010 | 2,756 | +834 (+43%) |
| 2020 | 3,202 | +446 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Big Rapids SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Altona quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Canadian Lakes between 1996 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 3 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 185 - 2020 |
| 7 May 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKEVIEW DISTRICT FD 0000084 - 2018 |
| 5 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 199 - 2019 |
| 5 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 211 - 2018 |
| 31 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 223 - 2020 |
| 31 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 238 - 2019 |
| 31 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA-AUSTIN FD 2019045 - 2019 |
| 22 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 47 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA 01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altona | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Sylvester | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Mecosta | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Halls Corner | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Rustford | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Higbee Corner | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Rodney | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Stanwood | 7.8 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Canadian Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316645 | 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 1852242. 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.








