Lake Michigan Beach, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Hagar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49038. The Survey maps it on the Coloma quadrangle. 1,101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Michigan Beach fell from 1,216 to 1,101 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,216 | |
| 2020 | 1,101 | -115 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 1930 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Coloma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lake Michigan Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 9 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 use | 19 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 163 - 2020 |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020 |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020 |
| 9 July 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020 |
| 7 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 125 - 2018 |
| 11 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 103 - 2020 |
| 8 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019 |
| 12 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Michigan Beach: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berrien Sand Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Nadeau Pit | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nadeau Site | Silica | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rose Pit | Silica | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Michigan Beach in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Michigan Beach | - | Emergency management officials reported a vehicle crashing into a fallen power pole. No injuries were reported. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Michigan Beach | - | Law enforcement officials reported a large tree down onto power lines in the Hagar township area. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Lake Michigan Beach | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Coloma | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Little Paw Paw Lake | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Paw Paw Lake | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Twelve Corners | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Mizpah Park | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Watervliet | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Benton Heights | 6.5 miles | 10 |
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 Michigan Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316637 | The 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 629980. 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.




