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Vandercook Lake, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49201. It stands on Sharp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson South quadrangle. 4,579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Vandercook Lake within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Vandercook Lake fell from 4,721 to 4,579 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
20104,721
20204,579-142 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

40 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Vandercook Lake between 2015 and 2020, burning about 60 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/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
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
27 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3751 - 2018
20 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3627 - 2018
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3240 - 2018
20 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3198 - 2018
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 2959 - 2018
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3054 - 2018
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 2561 - 2018
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 2899 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vandercook Lake: 2 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
Palmer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandercook Lake in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 hail. 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
June 1998HailVandercook Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
South Jackson3.0 miles19
Jackson3.7 miles19
Michigan Center4.4 miles17
Clarklake5.5 miles18
Liberty6.3 miles18
Woodville6.7 miles12
Holiday Manor Park7.1 miles12
Oak Point7.2 miles17

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 Vandercook LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2947140The 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 1615507. 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.