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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.

Lost Lake Woods within Alcona County

Population over time

2 figures

Lost 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.

YearPeople Change
2010312
2020367+55 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

40 since 1993

Regional 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2004Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2015Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 24 - LONE OAK
16 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 19 - CHIPMUNK
29 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 23 - LONG FIRE
18 July 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 07 - STRIKE
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025HailLost Lake Woods-Reports of quarter size hail in the Long Lake Woods area in central Alcona county.
April 2011HailLost Lake Woods-Hail covered the ground.
June 2005HailLost Lake Woods-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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
Spruce5.1 miles9
Larson Beach5.5 miles9
Lincoln6.4 miles11
Hubbard Lake6.5 miles9
Backus Beach6.6 miles9
Alcona6.8 miles8
Black River7.0 miles8
Killmaster10.1 miles11

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 WoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2179047The 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.