Wakelee, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Volinia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49067. The Survey maps it on the Vandalia quadrangle.

Wakelee within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wakelee between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000040 - 2018
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
3 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002395 - 2019
23 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000027 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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 Wakelee: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
	Pipher's Marl Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	West Rate Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Penn	4.0 miles	16
Nicholsville	4.2 miles	12
Marcellus	4.4 miles	12
Volinia	4.5 miles	12
Vandalia	5.0 miles	16
Spring Beach	6.8 miles	16
Jones	7.0 miles	16
Diamond Shores	7.6 miles	16

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 Q122569512

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 1615677. 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.