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Wolverine 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. 4,544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Wolverine Lake within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Wolverine Lake grew from 4,312 to 4,544 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
20104,312
20204,544+232 (+5%)

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

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wolverine Lake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

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 Wolverine 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

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
Walled Lake1.4 miles22
Oakley Park1.5 miles22
Glengary1.7 miles19
Commerce2.5 miles22
Westacres4.0 miles22
Wixom4.0 miles19
Union Lake4.3 miles22
Novi5.3 miles20

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 Wolverine LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1882516The 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 1616717. 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.