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Lake Leelanau, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Leland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49653. The Survey maps it on the Suttons Bay quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Lake Leelanau within Leelanau County

On record in Lake Leelanau

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Leelanau fell from 253 to 229 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
2010253
2020229-24 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lake Leelanau between 2001 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreOAK FIRE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
9 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreGOODHARBOR
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyMCKEESE FIREWORKS
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020
20 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000008
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4521 - 2018
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreOVERBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau 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 Lake Leelanau: 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
Leelanau County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Leelanau in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Leelanau$20,000A boat was flipped, and the dock it was attached to was destroyed. This occurred on Lake Leelanau, along South Sandy Beach Drive.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Leelanau$18,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in central Leelanau County.
September 2023FloodLake Leelanau$10,000Multiple basements flooded in Lake Leelanau area. Private weather station measured 5.95 inches of rain.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Leelanau$5,000Trees and power lines were downed in Lake Leelanau. The Inland Seas Academy in Suttons Bay measured a 60 mph gust, while a nearby ship measured 56 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Leelanau$1,000Tree down blocking Popp Rd. Time estimated via radar.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Leelanau$1,000A large tree was blown down.|
August 2015HailLake Leelanau-no account filed
June 2011HailLake Leelanau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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
Fountain Point0.9 miles13
Suttons Bay3.4 miles13
Leland3.8 miles10
Keswick4.8 miles13
Schomberg5.2 miles14
Leelanau Shores6.2 miles13
Bodus6.2 miles14
Peshawbestown6.7 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 Lake LeelanauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6476598The 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 630269. 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.