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Clarklake, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49234. The Survey maps it on the Cement City quadrangle. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Clarklake within Jackson County

On record in Clarklake

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Clarklake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 0000352 - 2018
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOMERSET TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 653 - 2020
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000552 - 2019
5 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 186 - 2019
5 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000452 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMIT TOWNSHIP FD 0000701 - 2019
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000232 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clarklake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Peninsular Port.Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Cambridge Junction Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarklake in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2003HailClarklake$15,000One inch diameter hail was reported about one mile west of Brooklyn near Clark Lake.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindClarklake$5,000Numerous eight to ten inch diameter tree limbs were blown down and several fell down on and blocked roads in the Clark Lake area.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Jefferson3.0 miles18
Liberty3.2 miles18
South Jackson5.1 miles19
Brooklyn5.2 miles13
Vandercook Lake5.5 miles19
Napoleon5.9 miles13
Oak Point6.8 miles17
Michigan Center7.8 miles17

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 Q122556432The 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 623374. 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.