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Sylvan Lake, Michigan

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in West Bloomfield Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48320. The Survey maps it on the Pontiac South quadrangle. 1,723 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Sylvan Lake within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Sylvan Lake grew from 1,720 to 1,723 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
20101,720
20201,723+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Sylvan Lake between 2018 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0008643 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007257 - 2019
11 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003097 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylvan Lake in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 4 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSylvan Lake$20,000Trees and limbs reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSylvan Lake-A few large tree limbs were reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSylvan Lake-Two foot diameter tree limb reported down on the road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSylvan Lake-Six to twelve inch diameter trees were reported down, along with large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Keego Harbor0.8 miles21
Orchard Lake2.5 miles21
Pontiac2.7 miles21
Four Towns4.5 miles22
Oak Grove4.8 miles17
Bloomfield Hills4.8 miles17
Westacres5.2 miles22
Clintonville5.6 miles21

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 Sylvan LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295703The 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 1614519. 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.

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.