Cheboygan, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cheboygan City. It lies in ZIP code area 49721. It stands on Cheboygan River. The Survey maps it on the Cheboygan quadrangle. 4,770 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.
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On record in Cheboygan
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Cheboygan County Courthouselisted 1986
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light Stationlisted 2005
Newton-Allaire Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresCheboygan fell from 4,867 to 4,770 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,867 | |
| 2020 | 4,770 | -97 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cheboygan between 1994 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | INVERNESS FD 0000045 - 2018 |
| 15 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cheboygan: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheboygan Tile&Brick Co Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheboygan in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | $100,000 | A portion of the roof of the Bishop Baraga School caved in. Little additional wind damage was noted in the immediate neighborhood. However, several trees were also uprooted a few miles to the southeast. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Cheboygan | $25,000 | Inverness Trail was washed out near Maynard Road. Numerous other secondary and gravel roads were washed out and closed. Water levels reached the sides of a few homes. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | $12,000 | Two trees and numerous power lines were downed. A garage was damaged by a fallen tree. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Ten inch diameter top of maple tree broken off. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Cheboygan | - | Thunderstorms produced street flooding in the city of Cheboygan as they repeatedly developed and moved over the city. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Numerous trees of various sizes were downed. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Spotter reported trees down in the town of Cheboygan. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | A large tree was blown down near Christopher's Restaurant on the southeast side of Mackinaw City. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheboygan | - | Three trees, six to eight feet in diameter were blown over on the west side of Mackinaw City. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Cheboygan | - | Dime-size hail was reported between Burt Lake and Mullet Lake by storm spotters. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Cheboygan | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Cheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Cheboygan | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Cheboygan | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pries Landing | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Orchard Beach | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Mullett Lake | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Point Nipigon | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mullett Lake Woods | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Silver Beach | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Alverno | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Birchwood | 8.2 miles | 11 |
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 Cheboygan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2738845 | The 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 623135. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




