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South Gull Lake, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49083. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle. 1,179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

South Gull Lake within Kalamazoo County

Population over time

3 figures

South Gull Lake fell from 1,526 to 1,179 between 2000 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
20001,526
20101,182-344 (-23%)
20201,179-3 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of South Gull Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
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
12 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 324 - 2019
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 237 - 2020
9 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020
6 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 178 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 South Gull Lake: 3 producers. 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
Barry Co Pit Bill Smith S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Midland Park0.6 miles19
Yorkville0.9 miles19
Gull Lake1.3 miles21
Highland Park1.4 miles19
Richland3.2 miles19
Howlandsburg3.6 miles21
Augusta4.2 miles22
Richland Junction5.4 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 South Gull LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2502167The 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 1867323. 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.