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Little Lake, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49833. The Survey maps it on the Little Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Little Lake within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Little Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000024 - 2019
29 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPORLEY TRAIL
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Little Lake: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1907, 1911
FrancisIronPast Producer1893
Francis MineIronPast Producer1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-MackinawIronPast Producer1911, 1919
Gardner-Mackinaw MineIronPast Producer1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Lake in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindLittle Lake$2,000A large jack pine tree greater than 12 inches in diameter took down power lines on East Ski Hill Road in Little Lake. A large aspen tree was also downed in the vicinity.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLittle Lake$1,000A tree fell onto a power line. Time is estimated from radar.
July 2006Heavy RainLittle Lake-Thunderstorms dumped heavy rainfall in excess of 2 inches during a one to two time frame as reported by spotters. The rainfall caused ponding of water in streets in Carlshend and minor basement flooding.
July 2006HailLittle Lake-no account filed
May 1999WildfireLittle Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Swanzy2.0 miles14
K I Sawyer3.7 miles18
Cedar Bank4.0 miles14
Plains4.2 miles18
New Swanzy4.5 miles18
Gwinn5.3 miles18
Helena6.1 miles12
Austin6.1 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q136352975The 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 630669. 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.