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Union Lake, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in White Lake Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48386. The Survey maps it on the Walled Lake quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Union Lake within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Union Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0010100 - 2019
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 192011 - 2019
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191895 - 2019
23 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0001444 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191747 - 2019
11 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 201496 - 2020
30 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191608 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Union Lake: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gale Road Plant No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Molesworth Oakland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portable Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rose PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sleeth Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waterford Sanitary Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Lake in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindUnion Lake$2,000A tree was reported blown down, along with wires across a road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindUnion Lake-Numerous trees reported blown down.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindUnion Lake-no account filed

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
Westacres1.5 miles22
Four Towns1.8 miles22
Oxbow2.3 miles21
Commerce2.8 miles22
Oakley Park4.1 miles22
Wolverine Lake4.3 miles22
Glengary4.6 miles19
Orchard Lake5.1 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 Union LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7885804The 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 1615347. 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.