# Birch Lake

Birch Lake is a lake in [Mills Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7771-74ac-bca7-24ea088e19e0), [Ogemaw County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5e35-7243-aa75-a4128ddc7622), [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) (8.8 ha), in the [Rifle River (HUC10 0408010104)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1e5b-7038-8515-20b89e845457) watershed.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2a-7129-af5d-46ed81c6cd7c>

Within: [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) › [Ogemaw County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5e35-7243-aa75-a4128ddc7622) › [Mills Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7771-74ac-bca7-24ea088e19e0)

Type: [geo:Feature](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature), [schema:LakeBodyOfWater](https://schema.org/LakeBodyOfWater), [schema:Place](https://schema.org/Place)

Location: 44.22964, -84.00868 (box -84.01880, 44.22679, -84.00536, 44.23018; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [gnis 621405](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2a-7129-af5d-46f68793de8f)
- `dcterms:type`: [lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisLake)
- `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`: [shape of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e1-7098-b2a4-8fc98e7de476)
- `geo:hasGeometry`:
  - [point of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-e2db-7707-8558-4a205956dd6c)
  - [shape of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e1-7098-b2a4-8fc98e7de476)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 87845.3 (xsd:double)
- **in watershed** (`bcgeo:inWatershed`): [Rifle River (HUC10 0408010104)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1e5b-7038-8515-20b89e845457)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`:
  - [evidence from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames\_MI\_Text.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2a-7129-af5d-46ec21937e3b)
  - [evidence from https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/usgs\_3dhp\_all/FeatureServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de32-461b-70d0-b65d-88cacba2130c)
  - [evidence from https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-181f-7381-b0ed-503831ec3d84)
- `schema:containedInPlace`:
  - [Ogemaw County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5e35-7243-aa75-a4128ddc7622)
  - [Mills Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7771-74ac-bca7-24ea088e19e0)
- `skos:prefLabel`: Birch Lake

## Elsewhere

- [Wikidata Q88270493](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88270493) (proposed match (exactMatch))
- [USGS GNIS 621405](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/621405) (gnis)
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.22964&mlon=-84.00868#map=14/44.22964/-84.00868) (44.22964, -84.00868)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44.22964,-84.00868)
- [Source](https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames_MI_Text.zip) (prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com)
- [Source](https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/usgs_3dhp_all/FeatureServer) (3dhp.nationalmap.gov)
- [Source](https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer) (hydro.nationalmap.gov)

## Pointing here

- Mappings (1; `owl:annotatedSource`):
  - [exactMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q88270493 (proposed)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddff-7384-7237-ac14-d4ed41fb2f27)

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Cite as: Birch Lake. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc15, 2026-09-28. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2a-7129-af5d-46ed81c6cd7c
Release 0.1.0-rc15, graph hash 90961d0d6b29954f5f0257ebc2d1d12c6ce580def6a2f45cbf04d248aa879e72.