Lost Lake Woods, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Alcona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48742. The Survey maps it on the Spruce quadrangle. 367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLost Lake Woods grew from 312 to 367 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 312 | |
| 2020 | 367 | +55 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Spruce quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
40 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Lost Lake Woods between 1993 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 24 - LONE OAK |
| 16 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 19 - CHIPMUNK |
| 29 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 23 - LONG FIRE |
| 18 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 07 - STRIKE |
| 12 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lost Lake Woods in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Hail | Lost Lake Woods | - | Reports of quarter size hail in the Long Lake Woods area in central Alcona county. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lost Lake Woods | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lost Lake Woods | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Larson Beach | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbard Lake | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Backus Beach | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Alcona | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Black River | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Killmaster | 10.1 miles | 11 |
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 Lost Lake Woods | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2179047 | The 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 1620636. 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.



