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Luther, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newkirk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49656. It stands on Lincoln Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luther quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Luther within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Luther grew from 318 to 332 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
2010318
2020332+14 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Luther between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
15 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE 0005
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE 04
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUTHER FD DISTRICT #1 0020083 - 2020
4 July 2005Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1992Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2003Debris and open burning3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Luther: 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
Lake County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luther in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 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
August 2000HailLuther$50,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLuther$4,000Law enforcement in Luther reported two trees were blown down.
March 2026HailLuther-no account filed
May 1996HailLuther-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Skookum3.5 miles14
Edgetts5.4 miles14
Bristol6.8 miles14
Wolf Lake8.5 miles14
Nirvana9.6 miles13
Chase10.7 miles13
Peacock10.9 miles14
Olivers12.1 miles13

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 LutherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2267409The 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 1620648. 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.