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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.

Lakeside within Berrien County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

20 since 2018

Regional 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019
27 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 175 - 2020
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019
7 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019
5 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 120 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLakeside$10,000Numerous trees down in Chikaming Township.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLakeside-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.

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
Turner Shores0.9 miles13
Hooks Corner1.5 miles13
Lakeview1.7 miles13
Union Pier2.0 miles13
Gordon Beach2.4 miles13
Harbert2.6 miles13
Hazelhurst2.9 miles12
Birchwood3.0 miles12

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 LakesideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6479050The 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.