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Long Lake, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Plainfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48739. The Survey maps it on the Hale quadrangle.

Long Lake within Iosco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

98 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 339 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGOLDEN
5 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBRANCH
22 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOHV
20 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPICK SITE
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPIT
12 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGOING TO HALE
10 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGRACEFUL
8 July 2001Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestLIBERTY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco 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 Long Lake: 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
Burge Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 3 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLong Lake$4,000A number of trees were downed.
July 2008HailLong Lake-Hail covered the ground at a local golf course.
May 2007HailLong Lake-no account filed
May 1994HailLong Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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
The Jackpines4.6 miles12
Hale4.6 miles12
Sand Lake12.1 miles14
Hemlock13.2 miles14
Whittemore13.4 miles10
Sid Town14.3 miles14
National City15.0 miles11
White Rock15.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620611. 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.