# Birch Lake

Birch Lake is a lake in [Humboldt Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7284-7756-87c2-7c13d72121ae), [Marquette County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5d65-70a2-917a-e4b27fa24d91), [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) (16.0 ha), in the [Middle Branch Escanaba River (HUC10 0403011001)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1cd1-7397-9c12-165549f7c5ee) watershed.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7>

Within: [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) › [Marquette County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5d65-70a2-917a-e4b27fa24d91) › [Humboldt Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7284-7756-87c2-7c13d72121ae)

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

Location: 46.40036, -87.89489 (box -87.89831, 46.39857, -87.89103, 46.40227; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [gnis 621407](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cc267e15ad8)
- `dcterms:type`: [lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisLake)
- `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`: [shape of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e2-72f5-bc11-722d0313ab42)
- `geo:hasGeometry`:
  - [point of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-e2dc-747b-8c22-8fe9845d8a94)
  - [shape of Birch Lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de2c-c4e2-72f5-bc11-722d0313ab42)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 160199.8 (xsd:double)
- **in watershed** (`bcgeo:inWatershed`): [Middle Branch Escanaba River (HUC10 0403011001)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1cd1-7397-9c12-165549f7c5ee)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`:
  - [evidence from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames\_MI\_Text.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cb973efc7c8)
  - [evidence from https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/usgs\_3dhp\_all/FeatureServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de32-461c-7618-899c-64eb9f2b2155)
  - [evidence from https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1634-71e0-9ea4-3541fd140a44)
- `schema:containedInPlace`:
  - [Marquette County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5d65-70a2-917a-e4b27fa24d91)
  - [Humboldt Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7284-7756-87c2-7c13d72121ae)
- `skos:prefLabel`: Birch Lake

## Elsewhere

- [Wikidata Q33232057](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33232057) (proposed match (exactMatch))
- [USGS GNIS 621407](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/621407) (gnis)
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=46.40036&mlon=-87.89489#map=14/46.40036/-87.89489) (46.40036, -87.89489)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=46.40036,-87.89489)
- [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/Q33232057 (proposed)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddff-7385-7686-9de9-e4cec8e7c776)

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Also as: [Turtle](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7.ttl), [JSON-LD](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7.jsonld), [N-Triples](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7.nt), [HTML](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7)
Cite as: Birch Lake. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ddfe-ac2b-7596-89fc-1cba5a1e9ec7
Release 0.1.0-rc12, graph hash a20f66b983549f220c6f061b7e40233771a06aa47a0c0aede95a2a57ee2e9553.