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Stony Lake, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Benona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49455. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Town Corners quadrangle.

Stony Lake within Oceana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Stony Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 12
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 16
6 July 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY-BENONA FD 0000066 - 2018
13 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2003Recreation and ceremony13 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana 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 Stony Lake: 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
Oceana County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Lake in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindStony Lake$3,000The public reported that a healthy tree was uprooted and a fence was blown down and a camper top was blown 30 feet off of the camper.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStony Lake$2,000A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph that brought down tree limbs over Stony Lake road.
June 2023HailStony Lake-An isolated severe storm produced one inch diameter hail near Stony Lake.
April 2017HailStony Lake-Hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter was reported near Shelby.

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
Little Point Sable5.5 miles6
Shelby8.0 miles11
New Era8.2 miles11
Rothbury8.9 miles11
Mears9.4 miles11
Hart12.0 miles12
Ferry14.7 miles11
French Town14.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619165. 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.