Lakeport, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Burtchville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48059. It stands on Milwaukee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakeport quadrangle.

Lakeport within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Lakeport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Croswell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lakeport between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 2 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	4
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FORT GRATIOT FD 653 - 2020
20 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FORT GRATIOT FD 595 - 2020
9 May 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRANT TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2018
2 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BURTCHVILLE TOWNSHIP FD 200085 - 2020
3 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRANT TOWNSHIP FD 0000027 - 2020
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FORT GRATIOT FD 358 - 2019
22 March 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 035 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeport in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeport	$15,000	Trees and powerlines reported down.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeport	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down two sections of 40,000 volt powerlines, resulting in a power loss to over 5,000 Detroit Edison customers. The winds also flattened a float at the Port Huron High School homecoming parade.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeport	-	A few large tree limbs were reported blown down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakeport	-	A large tree was blown down and uprooted.

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Lakeport	1.6 miles	8
Blaine	4.8 miles	11
Gardendale	5.3 miles	10
Jeddo	5.5 miles	10
Keewahdin	5.7 miles	10
Atkins	5.8 miles	11
Ruby	8.0 miles	11
Fargo	9.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624657. 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.