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Lakeland, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hamburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48169. It stands on Chilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle.

Lakeland within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lakeland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19906 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEXTER AREA FD 0000639 - 2018
26 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPUTNAM TOWNSHIP FD 0000339 - 2018
17 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018
3 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMBURG TOWNSHIP FD 0000539 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Lakeland: 4 producers. 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
Bennett No 12 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeland in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2008FloodLakeland$150,000The Huron River at Hamburg crested at 7.6 feet during the morning of September 18th.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLakeland$5,000Trees and power lines reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLakeland-Multiple large trees reported down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLakeland-A tree was reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLakeland-Trees reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLakeland-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Pettysville1.6 miles19
Parishfield2.4 miles19
Hamburg2.5 miles19
Chilson4.5 miles13
Pinckney5.4 miles19
Whitmore Lake5.6 miles19
Brighton5.7 miles13
Hell7.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 630012. 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.