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Leland, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Leland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49654. It stands on Leland River. The Survey maps it on the Leland quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Leland within Leelanau County

On record in Leland

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Leland fell from 2,033 to 410 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20002,033
2010377-1,656 (-81%)
2020410+33 (+9%)

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Leland between 2007 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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 use3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4521 - 2018
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 2400 - 2020
22 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 December 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Leland: 1 producer. 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
Leelanau County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindLeland$5,200,000Trees and power lines were downed in northern Leelanau County, though the damage was not as extensive as further south. Still, multiple vehicles and homes were damaged by falling trees.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Leland$20,000A tornado touched down near the west shore of Lake Leelanau, then moved out onto the lake and quickly dissipated. Docks and boats were damaged along a short stretch of shoreline, and a few trees were downed in the area.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLeland$10,000Several trees were downed. Some power lines near the Leland Library were downed by falling trees.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLeland$6,000A number of trees and power lines were downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLeland$4,000A few trees were downed.
July 2006HailLeland-Substantial damage done to fruit crops, including tart cherries, apples, and peaches.
June 2004HailLeland-Considerable damage was done to fruit trees and other crops in the Leland area. Damage estimate is conservative.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLeland-no account filed
April 2017HailLeland-no account filed
September 2008HailLeland-no account filed
May 2002HailLeland-no account filed
May 2001HailLeland-no account filed
May 2000HailLeland-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLeland-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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
Lake Leelanau3.8 miles13
Fountain Point4.7 miles13
Suttons Bay6.6 miles13
Schomberg7.1 miles14
Bodus8.1 miles14
Peshawbestown8.4 miles12
Keswick8.6 miles13
Omena9.3 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 LelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q648172The 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 630296. 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.