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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.

Lake Michigan Beach within Berrien County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,216
20201,101-115 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

32 since 2018

Regional 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 use19
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 163 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020
9 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020
7 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 125 - 2018
11 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 103 - 2020
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019
12 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Berrien Sand QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nadeau PitSilicaProducerSedimentary
Nadeau SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Rose PitSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Michigan Beach-Emergency management officials reported a vehicle crashing into a fallen power pole. No injuries were reported.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Michigan Beach-Law enforcement officials reported a large tree down onto power lines in the Hagar township area.
April 2016HailLake Michigan Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Riverside2.7 miles10
Coloma4.0 miles11
Little Paw Paw Lake4.5 miles11
Paw Paw Lake5.2 miles11
Twelve Corners5.3 miles10
Mizpah Park5.4 miles10
Watervliet6.2 miles11
Benton Heights6.5 miles10

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316637The 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.