BlockForest Lake, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Au Train Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. The Survey maps it on the Forest Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1958 USGS Au Train quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Forest Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Forest Lake between 1993 and 2003, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | not named |
| 24 June 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MS |
| 19 May 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Forest Lake: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Pit # 66 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Lake in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest Lake | $2,000 | Law enforcement dispatch reported a downed power line that was smoking along Hayward Road near Sixteen Mile Lake in Alger County. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest Lake | $1,000 | Two 10 to 12 inch diameter trees were knocked and tents were blown over at a campground. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Forest Lake | - | Facebook comment with picture showed hail ranging from marble to quarter size. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Forest Lake | - | Hail ranged from pea to quarter size. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Forest Lake | - | Report via Facebook southeast of Forest Lake of between dime and quarter-sized hail along with 0.59 inches of rain. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Forest Lake | - | Report via mPING of penny-sized hail in rural Alger County. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Forest Lake | - | There was a public report of half inch to one inch diameter hail seven miles southeast of Forest Lake. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619955. 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.