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.
Population over time
2 figuresTwin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,720 | |
| 2020 | 2,056 | +336 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Twin Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Twin Lake SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Twin Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUSKEGON 09 |
| 11 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000657 - 2019 |
| 11 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUSKEGON 08 |
| 5 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLUE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000217 - 2019 |
| 10 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUSKEGON 0004 |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUSKEGON 06 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mccormick Pit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Twin Lake | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Twin Lake | $25,000 | A public report of hail up to one and three quarters inches in diamter was received from near Twin Lake. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lake | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported multiple trees were blown down in the 7200 block of Blue Lake road and White Lake road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lake | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in Cedar Creek township. |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Twin Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Twin Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lake | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lake | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down in Twin Lake. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Twin Lake | - | A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail and some branches down in Twin Lake. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Twin 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lakewood Club | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Holton | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Dalton | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Berry Junction | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Wolf Lake | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Brunswick | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Apple Carr Village | 8.5 miles | 11 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1851641 | 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 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.





