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Lake Linden, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schoolcraft Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49945. It stands on Trap Rock River. The Survey maps it on the Laurium quadrangle. 1,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Lake Linden within Houghton County

On record in Lake Linden

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Linden grew from 1,007 to 1,014 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
20101,007
20201,014+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lake Linden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
10 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUD LAKE ROAD SWAMP
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
2 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Lake Linden: 22 past producers, 10 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Nickel, Copper, Nickel. 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
Centennial No.2Copper, SilverPast Producer1863, 1904
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
Centennial MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1869, 1920
Kearsarge MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
La Salle MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1910, 1920
Mayflower Old Colony MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
Calumet No 2CopperPast Producer1864, 1865
Calumet No.1CopperPast Producer1864, 1865
Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate LodeCopperPast Producer1864, 1865, 1968

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Linden in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLake Linden$2,000The observer in Lake Linden reported a loss of power with trees fallen on power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLake Linden$1,000Law enforcement dispatch reported a power line down at the intersection of 9th Street and Calumet Street in Lake Linden.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Linden$1,000Several trees and power lines downed.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Linden-Large limbs were reported down in the Hubbell/Lake Linden area along with minor street flooding.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLake Linden-Three inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Linden-Winds damage with trees down along Post Road.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Gregoryville1.0 miles13
Hubbell1.8 miles13
Laurium3.5 miles13
Osceola3.6 miles13
Quincy Mill4.2 miles13
Swedetown4.2 miles13
Calumet4.4 miles13
Centennial4.6 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 LindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229387The 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 630501. 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.