BlockBefore

Carp Lake, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carp Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49718. The Survey maps it on the Levering quadrangle. 356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Carp Lake within Emmet County

Population over time

2 figures

Carp Lake fell from 357 to 356 between 2010 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.

YearPeople Change
2010357
2020356-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

19 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Carp Lake between 2003 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARP LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0020018 - 2020
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACKINAW CITY FD 19-0058 - 2019
22 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPELLSTON FD 066024 - 2018
3 May 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMET 06 - EAST LEVERING RD.
10 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet 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 Carp 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
Snider Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carp Lake in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindCarp Lake-Numerous trees of various sizes were downed.

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Levering4.7 miles11
Cecil5.4 miles11
Bliss7.2 miles11
Van7.3 miles11
Canby Corners9.7 miles11
Pellston10.1 miles11
Marsh Corner12.7 miles11
Brutus14.2 miles14

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 Carp LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17142712The 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 622752. 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.