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.
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 512 | |
| 2020 | 415 | -97 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:25000
- 1982 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
59 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MADISON SCHOOL |
| 25 August 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CONDO |
| 21 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | HARRIS ROAD |
| 17 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | EAST LAKE ROAD |
| 5 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | STOP SIGN |
| 5 July 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Agency | LRBHOUSING |
| 3 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CARLSTROM |
| 3 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | STATION POWER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morton Salt Company- Manistee | Bromine | Producer | 1892 | |
| Morton-Manistee | Magnesite, Bromine | Producer | 1940 | |
| Martin Marietta-Manistee | Magnesite | Producer | 1944, 1969 | |
| Martin-Marietta Chem.--Manistee, Mi | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Martin-Marietta Chemicals (Manistee) | Magnesite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Morton Chem Co--Manistee, Mich. | Magnesite | 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.
| Wikipedia article on East Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2238111 | 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 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.





