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Brohman, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Merrill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49312. The Survey maps it on the Woodland Park quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Brohman within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Brohman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBLACK BEAR
17 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFRUIT TRUCK
6 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLINCOLN
5 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWOOD BRIDGE
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFREEDOM
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT FD 281 - 2020
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCANDLE
26 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestEVERGREEN DITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brohman in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBrohman$50,000A NWS storm survey confirmed areas of tree damage consistent with winds up to 75 mph southeast of Brohman along 6 mile road near Evergreen Drive extending to Spruce Avenue.
May 2004HailBrohman$15,000Law enforcement in Brohman reported three quarters inch diameter hail.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBrohman$5,000Law enforcement reported that multiple trees were blown down near Brohman.
July 2007HailBrohman$5,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported by local media in Brohman.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Woodland Park3.2 miles15
Bitely4.9 miles15
Ramona5.6 miles14
Lilley6.2 miles15
Woodville7.3 miles13
Walgamor Corners8.1 miles14
White Cloud9.6 miles14
Aetna9.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122549656The 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 1619322. 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.