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Alba, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Star Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49611. The Survey maps it on the Alba quadrangle. 287 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Alba within Antrim County

Population over time

2 figures

Alba fell from 295 to 287 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
2010295
2020287-8 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Alba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015601 - 2018
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015538 - 2018
4 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Smoking5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alba in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindAlba1 hurtA female hiker was struck by a falling tree in the Landslide Creek area. Her injuries were not serious.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Alba$175,000The tornado formed 4 miles east of Alba in a location on Olds Rd 0.5 miles east of the Alba Rd intersection. It tracked east northeast for about 1.75 miles before exiting Antrim county 200 yards southeast of the Alba Rd/Old Alba Rd intersection. The tornado continued in Otsego county for almost 16 additional miles before dissipating at 1457 EST. In Antrim county, no injuries or fatalities were reported. Several homes were damaged along with numerous softwood trees snapped at their trunks (DI 28, DOD 4) along Patterson Rd. While the highest rating of EF1 in Antrim county was assigned at this location, the tornado was rated EF3 in Otsego county. The maximum path width in Antrim county was 200 yards.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Alba$80,000A tornado with estimated maximum winds of 80 mph touched down south of Alba, and followed a discontinuous path to the northeast, lifting just before the Otsego County line. A number of hardwood and softwood trees were downed.
May 2022HailAlba$30,000Report of hail smaller than baseballs resulting in roof, siding, and garage door damage to two houses.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAlba$4,000Six to eight trees downed at the Lakes of the North campground.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAlba$1,500A large metal flag pole was toppled.
May 2022HailAlba-One inch hail 4 miles west of Alba.
May 2022HailAlba-Facebook photo of golf ball sized hail at the intersection of M 32 and US 131. Time estimated by radar.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAlba-A few trees down.
June 2011HailAlba-no account filed
October 2007HailAlba-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindAlba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
Wetzel4.4 miles16
Green River4.7 miles16
Mancelona7.0 miles16
Antrim8.1 miles16
Chestonia8.3 miles12
Finkton9.7 miles12
Pleasant Valley11.7 miles12
Bellaire12.9 miles15

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 AlbaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4708936The 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 619894. 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.