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Walled Lake, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walled Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 48390. The Survey maps it on the Walled Lake quadrangle. 7,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Walled Lake within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Walled Lake grew from 6,999 to 7,250 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
20106,999
20207,250+251 (+4%)

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

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Walled Lake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOVI FD 0004815 - 2019
7 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALLED LAKE FD 0000573 - 2019
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 192011 - 2019
31 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOVI FD 0005330 - 2019
30 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALLED LAKE FD 0000644 - 2019
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWIXOM FD 0000653 - 2020
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191895 - 2019
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOVI FD 0003788 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Walled Lake: 5 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
Fyke 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

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walled Lake in 18 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake$500,000Large oak trees reported down on residential homes.
June 2005LightningWalled Lake$500,000Lightning struck a condominium complex in West Bloomfield near Maple and Haggerty roads. All four units were deemed uninhabitable due to smoke and fire damage.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake$5,000Trees and power lines blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Large tree branch and wires down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Numerous tree limbs and a few large trees (mainly un-healthy) knocked down in woods behind residence's homes. Otherwise, sporadic light tree damage noted between 12 and 14 miles from Haggerty to Halsted, with isolated large limbs/trees down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Large tree limbs reported down.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A tree was reported blown over.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Tree reported blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A large tree was blown down, along with several tree limbs scattered about.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Numerous large tree branches and a few small trees reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A 10 inch diameter tree was reported down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A trained weather spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts between 60 and 75 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs and trees blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWalled Lake-Local media reported a tree blown onto a car.
June 2008HailWalled Lake-no account filed
June 2008HailWalled 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
Wolverine Lake1.4 miles22
Glengary2.2 miles19
Oakley Park2.3 miles22
Wixom3.1 miles19
Commerce3.7 miles22
Novi4.0 miles20
Westacres5.2 miles22
North Farmington5.4 miles22

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 Walled LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2847502The 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 1615720. 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.