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Wolf Lake, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Peacock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49304. The Survey maps it on the Stewart Lake quadrangle.

Wolf Lake within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks2

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
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOLD BOTTLE
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE 04
8 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLEISURE FIRE
18 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCANNON
14 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCLOUD NINE
1 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National Forest16 TH. STREET
7 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBROOKS
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSPARKLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Wolf 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
Lake Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webber Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Lake in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 2 hail, 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake$250,000Numerous trees were blown down across much of Lake county.
April 2011HailWolf Lake-Law enforcement near Wolf Lake reported hail the size of a quarter (one inch) in diameter.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake-The storms that moved through Lake County produced reports of tree damage and subsevere hail. The hardest hit location appeared to be near the Wolf Lake area, where trees and power lines were downed and a report of hail estimated at 0.88 inch diameter fell.
September 1998HailWolf Lake-3/4" hail produced by supercell moving east.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Peacock3.8 miles14
Little Manistee7.2 miles14
Baldwin7.3 miles16
Idlewild8.5 miles16
Luther8.5 miles14
Sauble8.8 miles14
Nirvana9.8 miles13
Marlborough9.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622781. 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.