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Five Lakes, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mayfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48461. The Survey maps it on the North Branch quadrangle.

Five Lakes within Lapeer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Five Lakes between 2003 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BRANCH TOWNSHIP FD 0000057 - 2019
7 May 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0118159 - 2018
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0119110 - 2019
26 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0118125 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0118117 - 2018
22 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use21 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Five Lakes: 1 producer. 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
Nolan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Five Lakes in 11 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes$10,000Trees and wires reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Trees and wires reported down throughout the area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Trees reported down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Trees reported down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Large tree limbs down on the road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Recorded wind speed via station MI-LP-9.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Numerous trees and wires reported down. One tree fell onto a house, causing one minor injury.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Two foot diameter tree limb reported down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindFive Lakes-Two trees reported down.
July 2023HailFive Lakes-no account filed
April 2020HailFive Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Kings Mill3.1 miles10
Barnes Lake4.7 miles10
Lum5.2 miles10
Millers Lake5.5 miles10
North Branch6.3 miles10
Lapeer7.8 miles10
Attica8.5 miles10
Goodland9.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617557. 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.