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.
Population over time
2 figuresSand 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,412 | |
| 2020 | 1,418 | +6 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Floyd Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
119 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 35 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CURTIS ROAD |
| 19 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | GYPSUM |
| 8 August 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | POWERLINE |
| 6 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | RED |
| 27 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CURTIS SMITH |
| 2 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CURTIS |
| 2 August 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | SAND LAKE |
| 16 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | GONE OUT WEST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tawas City Western Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| National Pit & Mill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Natl Gypsum Co Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sand Lake | $12,000 | Multiple trees, tree limbs and power lines were downed. One road northeast of Sand Lake was blocked. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sand Lake | $2,000 | Iosco county dispatch reports trees down near Sand Lake. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemlock | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Meadow | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| White Rock | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| McIvor | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| National City | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hale | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Alabaster Junction | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Whittemore | 8.6 miles | 10 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16086932 | The 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.




