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.
Population over time
2 figuresSylvan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,720 | |
| 2020 | 1,723 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1907 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS Pontiac South quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Pontiac South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Pontiac South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Pontiac South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Pontiac South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
22 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019 |
| 17 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0008643 - 2019 |
| 27 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019 |
| 13 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019 |
| 13 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007257 - 2019 |
| 11 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019 |
| 10 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018 |
| 1 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003097 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sylvan Lake | $20,000 | Trees and limbs reported down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sylvan Lake | - | A few large tree limbs were reported down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sylvan Lake | - | Two foot diameter tree limb reported down on the road. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sylvan Lake | - | Six to twelve inch diameter trees were reported down, along with large tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keego Harbor | 0.8 miles | 21 | |
| Orchard Lake | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Pontiac | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Four Towns | 4.5 miles | 22 | |
| Oak Grove | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Bloomfield Hills | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Westacres | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Clintonville | 5.6 miles | 21 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3295703 | 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 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.









