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North Lake, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pine Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49055. The Survey maps it on the Gobles East quadrangle.

North Lake within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of North Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 096 - 2020
19 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVANBUREN 02 - 38TH ST
19 August 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVAN BUREN 01 - 28TH ST
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000099 - 2018
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000095 - 2018
6 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 44 - 2018
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000046 - 2019
30 April 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 833 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 North Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Shield Brother's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Kendall2.0 miles14
Pine Grove2.7 miles14
Mentha2.9 miles14
Gobles3.7 miles13
Almena4.7 miles14
Glendale7.6 miles13
Bloomingdale8.0 miles13
Mattawan8.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2112796. 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.