Lakeside, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Chikaming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49116. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.
On record in Lakeside
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lakeside Innlisted 2009
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1930 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS New Buffalo East quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | THREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019 |
| 27 September 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 175 - 2020 |
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019 |
| 12 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019 |
| 7 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019 |
| 22 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020 |
| 21 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 120 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | $10,000 | Numerous trees down in Chikaming Township. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeside | - | A trained spotter reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Lakeshore Drive and Lakeside road. In addition to the tree damage, blown transformers and downed power lines were tangled in some of the nearby trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner Shores | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hooks Corner | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeview | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Union Pier | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Gordon Beach | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Harbert | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hazelhurst | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Birchwood | 3.0 miles | 12 |
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 Lakeside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6479050 | 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 630020. 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.





