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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.

Glen Arbor within Leelanau County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Glen 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.

YearPeople Change
2010229
2020261+32 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1992

Regional 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/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreCHIEF
17 August 2008Fireworksunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreTHORESON BEACH
5 July 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreDAYFOREST
30 July 2008Naturalunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCLAYBANKS
1 July 1993Fireworksunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreFIREWORKS
24 June 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreSUNSET
16 June 2013Naturalunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreMILLER HILL
6 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreDUNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGlen Arbor$4,000Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGlen Arbor$2,000Large tree limbs and power lines were downed by the wind at both locations.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGlen Arbor$1,000County dispatch reported tree down blocking S. Glen Lake Rd. Time estimated via radar.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGlen Arbor-Multiple trees and powerlines reported down in Glen Arbor.

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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
Leelanau Schools1.4 miles14
Glen Haven2.3 miles8
Burdickville3.9 miles15
Port Oneida4.1 miles14
Empire7.2 miles10
Maple City7.4 miles14
Cedar10.6 miles14
Bodus10.8 miles14

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 ArborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27339830The 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.