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Devils Lake, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Woodstock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49220. It stands on Horton Drain. The Survey maps it on the Cement City quadrangle.

Devils Lake within Lenawee County

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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Devils Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 48 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 use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
16 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000809 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000553 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000552 - 2019
12 May 2020Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 298 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Devils Lake: 4 producers. 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
Cambridge Junction Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cliff Brownell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Brothers Lanawee County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devils Lake in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 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
December 1998Thunderstorm WindDevils Lake$20,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDevils Lake$8,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindDevils Lake-Tree blew down onto a house.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDevils Lake-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2003HailDevils Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Devil's Lake Estates1.9 miles9
Addison Junction2.0 miles9
Manitou Beach2.8 miles9
Round Lake Estates3.0 miles9
Addison3.3 miles9
Geneva3.5 miles9
Cement City4.7 miles18
Cambridge Junction5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624605. 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.