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Twin Lake, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49457. The Survey maps it on the Twin Lake quadrangle. 2,056 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Twin Lake within Muskegon County

Population over time

2 figures

Twin Lake grew from 1,720 to 2,056 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
20202,056+336 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
25 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 09
11 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000657 - 2019
11 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 08
5 August 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLUE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000217 - 2019
10 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 0004
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 06

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon 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 Twin Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Mccormick PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lake in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2000HailTwin Lake$50,000no account filed
August 2019HailTwin Lake$25,000A public report of hail up to one and three quarters inches in diamter was received from near Twin Lake.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake$10,000Law enforcement reported multiple trees were blown down in the 7200 block of Blue Lake road and White Lake road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Cedar Creek township.
April 2001Flash FloodTwin Lake$10,000no account filed
April 2001HailTwin Lake$10,000no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake$5,000Several trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake$5,000Several trees were blown down in Twin Lake.
May 2012HailTwin Lake-A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail and some branches down in Twin Lake.
July 2011HailTwin Lake-A trained spotter reported that in addition to three quarters inch hail thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several trees in Twin Lake. This occurred with an area of storms that developed during the mid morning hours just to the north of the secondary bow echo that passed by just to the south of Muskegon.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake-A trained spotter reported an estimated severe thunderstorm wind gust to 70 mph at Twin Lake. Numerous tree branches were blown down and there was also damage to a pontoon boat and garage roof.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTwin Lake-A trained spotter near Twin Lake estimated wind speeds up to 60 mph with the passage of the storm which downed numerous tree branches. Additionally, the Muskegon GLERL observation site reported a wind gust of 54 mph just a short time before the report from Twin Lake.

Every storm recorded in Muskegon 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
Lakewood3.9 miles10
Lakewood Club5.1 miles10
Holton5.7 miles10
Dalton6.0 miles10
Berry Junction6.9 miles10
Wolf Lake8.0 miles10
Brunswick8.2 miles10
Apple Carr Village8.5 miles11

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 Twin LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1851641The 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 1621982. 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.