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Lake Fenton, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fenton Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48430. It lies near Case Island. The Survey maps it on the Fenton quadrangle. 5,905 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Lake Fenton within Genesee County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Fenton grew from 4,876 to 5,905 between 2000 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
20004,876
20105,559+683 (+14%)
20205,905+346 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

23 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Lake Fenton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Smoking1
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
7 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000655 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000288 - 2019
25 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND BLANC FD 425 - 2020
24 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000320 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000305 - 2019
20 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 573 - 2019
10 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000228 - 2019
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2018208 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake Fenton: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Frank Sharp Clay PitClayPast Producer
Denton Plant & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fenton Gravel Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Fenton in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2013Tornado (EF2)Lake Fenton$225,000The tornado was rated EF2 with maximum wind speeds of 115 mph. The maximum path width was 500 yards with a total path length of 5.1 miles. The tornado started along Odell Road south of Linden Road and continued to Fenton Road north of Baldwin Road. The greatest damage occurred along Thompson Road between Fairbanks and Jennings Roads. There was significant damage to homes, including removal of roofs, along with substantial tree damage.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Fenton$5,000Numerous 18 inch diameter trees and power lines down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Fenton-Power lines reported down.

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Lakeside0.7 miles14
Bayport Park0.8 miles14
Fenton3.3 miles14
Linden4.5 miles14
Rankin5.2 miles13
Grand Blanc7.0 miles14
Whigville7.4 miles14
Argentine8.3 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 Lake FentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2314410The 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 1867319. 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.