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Lakeview, 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 49129. It stands on South Branch Galien River. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle.

Lakeview within Berrien County

On record in Lakeview

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 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 use6
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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 75 - 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 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 WindLakeview$10,000Numerous large trees and power lines down.
March 2017HailLakeview-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
Union Pier0.4 miles13
Gordon Beach0.7 miles13
Hooks Corner1.4 miles13
Lakeside1.7 miles13
Sokol Camp2.0 miles13
Turner Shores2.6 miles13
New Buffalo3.8 miles13
Harbert4.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 630044. 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.