Glen Arbor, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Glen Arbor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49636. The Survey maps it on the Glen Arbor quadrangle. 261 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.
On record in Glen Arbor
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
Saint Joseph's Catholic Churchlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresGlen Arbor grew from 229 to 261 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 261 | +32 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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
- 1957 USGS Maple City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Glen Arbor quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
- 1997 USGS Glen Arbor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Glen Arbor between 1992 and 2013, burning about 4 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | CHIEF |
| 17 August 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | THORESON BEACH |
| 5 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | DAYFOREST |
| 30 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CLAYBANKS |
| 1 July 1993 | Fireworks | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | FIREWORKS |
| 24 June 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | SUNSET |
| 16 June 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | MILLER HILL |
| 6 May 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | DUNE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Arbor in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Arbor | $4,000 | Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Arbor | $2,000 | Large tree limbs and power lines were downed by the wind at both locations. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Arbor | $1,000 | County dispatch reported tree down blocking S. Glen Lake Rd. Time estimated via radar. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Arbor | - | Multiple trees and powerlines reported down in Glen Arbor. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leelanau Schools | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Glen Haven | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Burdickville | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Port Oneida | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Empire | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Maple City | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cedar | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Bodus | 10.8 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 Glen Arbor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27339830 | 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 626870. 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.






