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Luna Pier, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Luna Pier City. It lies in ZIP code area 48157. It stands on Whitewood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Erie quadrangle. 1,382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Luna Pier within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Luna Pier fell from 1,436 to 1,382 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
20101,436
20201,382-54 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

22 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Luna Pier between 2010 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 129 - 2020
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 121 - 2020
8 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORIN POINT FD 96 - 2020
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLASALLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000267 - 2019
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
7 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORIN POINT FD 78 - 2020
7 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 80 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luna Pier: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General. 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
Otter Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Scotfield Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luna Pier in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 waterspout. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindLuna Pier$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLuna Pier-Measured 78 mph wind gust, which pushed over empty rail cars.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLuna Pier-Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down on the Lost Peninsula.
April 2001HailLuna Pier-A few thunderstorms developed along the Lake Erie shoreline late in the afternoon. One of these produced penny sized hail in Luna Pier, just before moving out over the lake.
March 2026HailLuna Pier-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLuna Pier-no account filed
August 1997WaterspoutLuna Pier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Vienna2.3 miles18
North Shores2.8 miles18
Erie3.0 miles18
Grand View3.2 miles18
Hillcrest Orchard3.4 miles18
La Salle4.2 miles18
Avalon Beach4.4 miles18
Ottawa5.0 miles19

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 Luna PierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2221960The 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 631215. 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.