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Sand Lake, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48748. The Survey maps it on the Floyd Lake quadrangle. 1,418 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sand Lake within Iosco County

Population over time

2 figures

Sand Lake grew from 1,412 to 1,418 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
20101,412
20201,418+6 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Sand Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning35
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural2
Other causes2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCURTIS ROAD
19 September 1999Debris and open burning11 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestGYPSUM
8 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPOWERLINE
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRED
27 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCURTIS SMITH
2 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCURTIS
2 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSAND LAKE
16 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGONE OUT WEST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sand Lake: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Tawas City Western Clay PitClayPast Producer
National Pit & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Natl Gypsum Co PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Lake in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 2 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSand Lake$12,000Multiple trees, tree limbs and power lines were downed. One road northeast of Sand Lake was blocked.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSand Lake$2,000Iosco county dispatch reports trees down near Sand Lake.

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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
Hemlock3.0 miles14
Meadow4.4 miles14
White Rock4.6 miles14
McIvor5.8 miles11
National City6.2 miles11
Hale7.5 miles12
Alabaster Junction8.2 miles11
Whittemore8.6 miles10

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 Sand LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16086932The 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 637195. 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.