BlockCedar Lake, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Home Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48891. The Survey maps it on the Vestaburg quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Vestaburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lake between 2018 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HOME TOWNSHIP FD 0000041 - 2018 |
| 2 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HOME TOWNSHIP FD 0000030 - 2018 |
| 13 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONTCALM 01 |
| 4 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2018-22 - 2018 |
| 29 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000020 - 2018 |
| 29 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BELVIDERE TOWNSHIP FD 0000017 - 2018 |
| 27 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HOME TOWNSHIP FD 0000021 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000016 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Lake: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitachi Magnetics Corp--Edmore, Mi. | REE | Producer | ||
| Dyer Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dyer Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Q136346767 | 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 622937. 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.