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Lake Isabella, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48893. The Survey maps it on the Weidman quadrangle. 1,829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Lake Isabella within Isabella County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Isabella grew from 1,681 to 1,829 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
20101,681
20201,829+148 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

19 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lake Isabella between 2010 and 2019, burning about 88 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Natural1
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
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 01
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 02
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 03
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 04
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLBROOK-ROLLAND TWPS FD 0000114 - 2018
16 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000193 - 2018
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000225 - 2019
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000221 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isabella 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 Isabella: 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
Natnal Portland Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Deerfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Isabella in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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 1997HailLake Isabella-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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
Drew2.1 miles12
Two Rivers2.7 miles15
Weidman3.4 miles15
Broomfield Center3.6 miles11
Horr3.8 miles12
Beal City5.0 miles15
Deerfield Center5.7 miles15
Sherman City7.1 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 Lake IsabellaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2095683The 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 1802949. 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.