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Wolf Lake, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Egelston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49442. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Lake quadrangle. 5,034 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Wolf Lake within Muskegon County

Population over time

2 figures

Wolf Lake grew from 4,104 to 5,034 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
20104,104
20205,034+930 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 453 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 1992Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 03
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEGELSTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000493 - 2018
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001272 - 2018
6 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001313 - 2019
5 July 1992Arson/incendiarism10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Lake in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWolf Lake$2,000A tree was blown down onto a road.

Every storm recorded in Muskegon 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
Apple Carr Village1.1 miles11
Updyke4.7 miles11
Cloverville5.3 miles11
Sullivan5.8 miles11
Morland Corner6.6 miles13
Moorland6.7 miles13
Muskegon7.5 miles11
Muskegon Heights7.8 miles11

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 Wolf LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2565570The 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 1622197. 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.

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.