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Interlochen, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Green Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49643. The Survey maps it on the Lake Ann quadrangle. 694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Interlochen within Grand Traverse County

Population over time

2 figures

Interlochen grew from 583 to 694 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
2010583
2020694+111 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Interlochen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 04 - LOST LAKE
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18401 - 2018
30 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLAIR TOWNSHIP FD 0000213 - 2019
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18410 - 2018
11 August 1996Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 05
9 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINLAND TWP FD 116 - 2019
6 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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 Interlochen: 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
Beeman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Interlochen in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$30,000Five trees and one power pole were snapped off. One tree was downed onto a home, and another onto a garage, damaging a boat inside the garage.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$15,000Approximately 15-20 trees blown down or significantly damaged. Three falling trees damaged a house, garage, and shed. Utility lines and an underground gas line were also damaged.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$8,000Falling tree destroyed camper.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$5,000Multiple trees were downed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$5,000Trees were downed over Riley Road, blocking traffic until they were cleared.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$5,000Trees were downed, some onto power lines.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindInterlochen$3,000Power lines down on road. Time of damage estimated from radar.
September 2025Tornado (EFU)Interlochen-Video of a brief tornado touchdown in northwest Grand Traverse County north of Long Lake. No damage was reported.
July 2023HailInterlochen-Hail about the size of quarters reported on US 131 in Interlochen.
July 2023HailInterlochen-Hail partially covering US 131.
July 2023HailInterlochen-Images and video shared on social media of hail covering the ground and around Interlochen.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindInterlochen-Trees down
July 2014HailInterlochen-no account filed
September 2005HailInterlochen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Grawn4.1 miles12
Monroe Center4.3 miles12
Karlin4.7 miles15
Pavlovic Corner5.3 miles15
Chums Corners6.2 miles12
Hilltop6.3 miles12
Hannah8.1 miles12
Cedar Run8.5 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 InterlochenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6047142The 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 629053. 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.