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.
Population over time
2 figuresWolverine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,312 | |
| 2020 | 4,544 | +232 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 22 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.
- 1907 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS Walled Lake quadrangle1:31680
- 1945 USGS Walled Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Walled Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Walled Lake quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOVI FD 0004815 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALLED LAKE FD 0000573 - 2019 |
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 192011 - 2019 |
| 31 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOVI FD 0005330 - 2019 |
| 30 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALLED LAKE FD 0000644 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WIXOM FD 0000653 - 2020 |
| 26 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191895 - 2019 |
| 2 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOVI FD 0003788 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fyke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Molesworth Oakland County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Portable Aggregates Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rose Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sleeth Rd Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walled Lake | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Oakley Park | 1.5 miles | 22 | |
| Glengary | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Commerce | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Westacres | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Wixom | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Union Lake | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Novi | 5.3 miles | 20 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1882516 | 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 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.








