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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.

Walloon Lake within Charlevoix County

Population over time

2 figures

Walloon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010290
2020271-19 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

10 since 1994

Regional 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 ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1808040 - 2018
28 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1806240 - 2018
5 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2003Equipment and vehicle use4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 2005130 - 2020
7 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 02
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMET 03
23 April 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boyne City Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Shale ProspectClayProspect
Unnamed Shale ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWalloon Lake$15,000Trees and power lines downed. Forty trees uprooted at Walloon Lake Country Club.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWalloon Lake$7,000Several large tree limbs were downed. One fell onto a vehicle.

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Clarion1.0 miles14
Wildwood3.6 miles12
Boyne City5.5 miles13
Zenith Heights6.1 miles12
Boyne Falls6.8 miles11
Horton Bay7.8 miles12
Advance8.2 miles13
Bay Shore10.8 miles12

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22074936The 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.