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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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L'Anse within Baraga County

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

Population over time

2 figures

L'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.

YearPeople Change
20102,011
20201,874-137 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

93 since 1994

Regional 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 burning41
Fireworks11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Other causes1
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
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyZEBA ALLOTMENT
5 September 2011Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyLABOR
28 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 PINES
27 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyPONDS
27 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 #1
27 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 #2
5 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyRR TRACKS
27 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyTWO BARRELS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baraga County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gomanche Creek Slate QuarryGranitePast Producer
Silver River Silver ProspectSilverProspectVein
Unnamed Silver ProspectSilverProspect

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022HailL Anse$10,000,000Facebook photos verified hail from golf ball to baseball-sized in L'Anse. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindL Anse$200,000Storms 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 2022HailL Anse$20,000Golf ball-sized hail was measured by a spotter two miles south of Baraga. Photos on Facebook verified the size of the hail.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindL Anse$10,000Social media reports confirmed power outages outside of L'anse and trees reported down in L'anse and Baraga.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindL Anse$4,000Numerous power outages were reported across northwest Baraga County by UPPCO.
September 2021LightningL Anse$2,000A lightning strike caused damage to a local power substation and caused power outages in L'anse in the early morning of the 7th.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindL Anse$2,000Several trees down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindL Anse$1,000There was a delayed report from the Baraga County Fire Department of small trees blown over and branches broken off trees in L'anse.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindL Anse$1,000A 50-foot tall 10-inch diameter tree broke in half. Also a 7-inch diameter poplar tree broke.
April 2022HailL Anse-The spotter just south of Baraga observed penny-sized hail from a strong thunderstorm.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindL Anse-A picnic table with an umbrella was blown over by strong winds.
June 2004HailL Anse-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindL Anse-Numerous large trees were knocked down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindL Anse-Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
April 2001HailL Anse-1 inch hail dented cars.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindL 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 1995Thunderstorm WindL'Anse-Trees down with power outages.

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Baraga2.4 miles12
Bovine2.7 miles12
Zeba3.8 miles12
Assinins3.9 miles12
Bear Town4.7 miles12
Pequaming7.1 miles12
Keweenaw Bay7.3 miles12
Herman7.7 miles12

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'AnseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2745129The 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.