Trout Lake, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trout Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49793. It stands on Kneebone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout Lake quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Trout Lake within Chippewa County

On record in Trout Lake

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Birch Lodge Hospital and Summer Resort Sanitariumlisted 1996

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1931 USGS Epoufette NE quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Trout Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Manistique Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Trout Lake between 1992 and 2016, burning about 258 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
25 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	PUDDLE
12 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	1ITTY BITTY
23 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
15 August 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	BACKHOE
13 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARP RIVER
29 June 2016	Natural	66 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	WILWIN FIRE
15 June 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Cordell

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Trout Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Ozark Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cordell	9.1 miles	11
Dick	9.9 miles	11
Eckerman Corner	10.5 miles	13
Strongs Corner	10.8 miles	15
Strongs	11.6 miles	15
Seewhy	11.7 miles	13
Eckerman	11.9 miles	13
Hulbert	13.1 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q136352799

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 1621963. 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.