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Central Lake, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Central Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49622. It stands on Knowles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Central Lake quadrangle. 960 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Central Lake within Antrim County

Population over time

2 figures

Central Lake grew from 952 to 960 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
2010952
2020960+8 (+1%)

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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Central Lake between 1992 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
16 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 01 - WOODCHIP FIRE
13 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 07
12 August 2006Debris and open burning1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim 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 Central Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
William W Johnston Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central Lake in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
July 2016HailCentral Lake$65,000Numerous vehicles were dented by very large hail, and some windows were broken. Area fruit crops sustained considerable damage.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindCentral Lake$18,000Scattered trees were downed in northern and western Antrim County.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCentral Lake$2,000Scanner reports crews are on the scene of a tree blocking a roadway near central lake. Time estimated via radar.
July 2016HailCentral Lake-Considerable damage to area crops, including cherries.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCentral Lake-Trees were downed at the intersection of Kidder and Lewis Roads.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCentral Lake-In a small area south of Central Lake, a tree and some power lines were downed by the wind.
May 2012HailCentral Lake-no account filed
August 2004HailCentral Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
Snowflake (historical)2.9 miles12
Torch Lake5.0 miles12
Eastport5.2 miles12
Pleasant Valley5.6 miles12
Creswell5.8 miles12
Ellsworth6.7 miles13
Bellaire6.8 miles15
North Arms7.0 miles15

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 Central LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2744397The 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 623004. 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.