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East Lake, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Manistee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49660. The Survey maps it on the Manistee quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count.

East Lake within Manistee County

Population over time

2 figures

East Lake fell from 512 to 415 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
2010512
2020415-97 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of East Lake between 1998 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
16 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMADISON SCHOOL
25 August 2009Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCONDO
21 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHARRIS ROAD
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestEAST LAKE ROAD
5 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTOP SIGN
5 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan AgencyLRBHOUSING
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCARLSTROM
3 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTATION POWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Lake: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine. 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
Morton Salt Company- ManisteeBromineProducer1892
Morton-ManisteeMagnesite, BromineProducer1940
Martin Marietta-ManisteeMagnesiteProducer1944, 1969
Martin-Marietta Chem.--Manistee, MiMagnesiteProducer
Martin-Marietta Chemicals (Manistee)MagnesiteProducerSedimentary
Morton Chem Co--Manistee, Mich.MagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Manistee 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
Oak Hill1.4 miles10
Manistee1.5 miles10
Parkdale1.6 miles9
Filer City2.1 miles10
Stronach2.4 miles10
Bar Lake3.7 miles9
Newland4.8 miles9
Douglas6.6 miles9

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 East LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2238111The 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 1619817. 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.