Fife Lake, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fife Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49633. It lies near Helen Island. The Survey maps it on the Fife Lake quadrangle. 456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
On record in Fife Lake
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 1 record
Fife Lake-Union District No. 1 Schoolhouselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresFife Lake grew from 443 to 456 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 | 443 | |
| 2020 | 456 | +13 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fife Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fife Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Fife Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BOURNE RD. - KALKASKA 05 |
| 24 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAND TRAVERSE 0002 |
| 11 August 2001 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fife Lake in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife Lake | $15,000 | Numerous trees were downed, one roof had shingles removed, and an awning was ripped off of a camper trailer. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife Lake | $7,000 | Trees were uprooted along US-131 near Fife Lake, as well as in a yard in the community. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Fife Lake | - | Quarter sized hail at the intersection of M-113 and M-186. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife Lake | - | Numerous trees down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Fife Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fife Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Fife Lake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walton Junction | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Walton | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| McManus Corner | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Jacks Landing | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| Summit City | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kingsley | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mayfield | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Devils Elbow | 10.3 miles | 14 |
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 Fife Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2388594 | 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 625937. 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.
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.





