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Acme, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Acme Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49690. It stands on Acme Creek. The Survey maps it on the Traverse City SE quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Acme within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Acme between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan AgencyTURTLE CREEK 2
17 September 2002Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0002106 - 2018
10 August 1992Natural6.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 192439 - 2019
31 July 2001Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 192682 - 2019
2 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acme in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAcme$5,000Thunderstorm wind gust recorded at mesonet station MC112 MDOT site near Acme.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAcme-Mesonet station MC112 Mdot Site.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAcme-A large tree was downed along M-72.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAcme-Trees were downed by the wind in a small area of northeastern Grand Traverse County. The area extended from six miles east of Traverse City to Williamsburg.
May 2012HailAcme-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Fivemile Corner2.1 miles13
Bates3.0 miles12
Yuba4.2 miles12
Williamsburg5.2 miles12
Devils Elbow6.0 miles14
Angel6.2 miles12
Traverse City6.3 miles12
Jacks Landing7.3 miles14

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 AcmeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115857852The 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 619807. 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.