L'Anse, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in L'Anse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49946. It stands on Linden Creek. The Survey maps it on the L'Anse quadrangle. 1,874 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
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On record in L'Anse
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
Hebard-Ford Summer Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresL'Anse fell from 2,011 to 1,874 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 | 2,011 | |
| 2020 | 1,874 | -137 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Keweenaw Bay quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS L'Anse quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS L'Anse quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
93 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of L'Anse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 753 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | ZEBA ALLOTMENT |
| 5 September 2011 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | LABOR |
| 28 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 PINES |
| 27 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | PONDS |
| 27 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 #1 |
| 27 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 #2 |
| 5 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | RR TRACKS |
| 27 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | TWO BARRELS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of L'Anse: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baraga County Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gomanche Creek Slate Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Silver River Silver Prospect | Silver | Prospect | Vein | |
| Unnamed Silver Prospect | Silver | Prospect |
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names L'Anse in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | L Anse | $10,000,000 | Facebook photos verified hail from golf ball to baseball-sized in L'Anse. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $200,000 | Storms caused sporadic straight-line wind damage over a path roughly one mile long and about one-half mile wide. The estimated 65 mph peak winds uprooted trees and broke off large limbs. One tree fell on a mobile home while the owner was sitting nearby and caused a fire to break out in the kitchen when it landed on a stove. Fallen trees caused damage to other houses and totaled at least one vehicle. In addition a portion of the roof of the county road commission garage was tore off. |
| July 2022 | Hail | L Anse | $20,000 | Golf ball-sized hail was measured by a spotter two miles south of Baraga. Photos on Facebook verified the size of the hail. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $10,000 | Social media reports confirmed power outages outside of L'anse and trees reported down in L'anse and Baraga. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $4,000 | Numerous power outages were reported across northwest Baraga County by UPPCO. |
| September 2021 | Lightning | L Anse | $2,000 | A lightning strike caused damage to a local power substation and caused power outages in L'anse in the early morning of the 7th. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $2,000 | Several trees down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $1,000 | There was a delayed report from the Baraga County Fire Department of small trees blown over and branches broken off trees in L'anse. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | $1,000 | A 50-foot tall 10-inch diameter tree broke in half. Also a 7-inch diameter poplar tree broke. |
| April 2022 | Hail | L Anse | - | The spotter just south of Baraga observed penny-sized hail from a strong thunderstorm. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | - | A picnic table with an umbrella was blown over by strong winds. |
| June 2004 | Hail | L Anse | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | - | Numerous large trees were knocked down. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken off. |
| April 2001 | Hail | L Anse | - | 1 inch hail dented cars. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | L Anse | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed 12 inch diameter trees and blew shingles off a roof in L'anse and snapped 8 inch diameter trees just south of L'anse. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | L'Anse | - | Trees down with power outages. |
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.
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 L'Anse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2745129 | 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 629897. 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.






