Walloon Lake, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Melrose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49796. It stands on Hay Marsh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Petoskey quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWalloon Lake fell from 290 to 271 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 | 290 | |
| 2020 | 271 | -19 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Petoskey SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Walloon Lake between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1808040 - 2018 |
| 28 June 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1806240 - 2018 |
| 5 May 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 2005130 - 2020 |
| 7 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHARLEVOIX 02 |
| 6 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EMMET 03 |
| 23 April 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Walloon Lake: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyne City Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shale Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Shale Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walloon Lake in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarion | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Wildwood | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Boyne City | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Zenith Heights | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Boyne Falls | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Horton Bay | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Advance | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bay Shore | 10.8 miles | 12 |
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 Walloon Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22074936 | 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 1615729. 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.





