BlockBefore

Lake Margrethe, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grayling Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. It lies near Mount Franklin. The Survey maps it on the Lake Margrethe quadrangle.

Lake Margrethe within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Lake Margrethe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,091 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use20
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE 16 KALKASKA 06
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE #8, CRAWFORD 20
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE #8 CRAWFORD 19
12 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 13 RANGE #8
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Margrethe in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Margrethe$21,000Numerous trees were downed in the area just east of Camp Grayling. One falling tree damaged a garage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Margrethe$10,000Multiple trees and power lines were downed in Beaver Creek Township.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Margrethe$5,000Multiple trees were downed, leading to localized power outages.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLake Margrethe$4,000Several trees were downed around Camp Grayling.
February 2017HailLake Margrethe-Penny-sized hail covered the ground.
June 2008HailLake Margrethe-Nickel sized hail fell along Four Mile Road, near and east of I-75.
June 2023HailLake Margrethe-no account filed
July 2014HailLake Margrethe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Collens Landing0.2 miles14
Rasmus0.8 miles14
Danish Landing1.2 miles14
McIntyre Landing2.6 miles14
Grayling3.2 miles14
Skyline Village6.1 miles13
Louis Cabin Landing7.3 miles14
Pere Cheney8.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631550. 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.

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.