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Cohoctah, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cohoctah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48855. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Cohoctah within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cohoctah between 1993 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
8 May 1993Smoking10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000467 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000203 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000464 - 2018
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000278 - 2018
18 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cohoctah in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2000Thunderstorm WindCohoctah$4,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCohoctah$2,000Multiple 6 inch diameter trees reported down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCohoctah$1,000Twenty-four inch diameter trees reported down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-Tree reported blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-Numerous trees reported blown across northern Livingston County.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-Central Dispatch reported a tree and power lines blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-A trained weather spotter reported 6 inch tree limbs and small trees down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-Uprooted tree blocking cohoctah road.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCohoctah-no account filed
June 2004HailCohoctah-no account filed
May 2000HailCohoctah-no account filed
August 2000HailCohoctah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Cohoctah Center2.1 miles14
Deer Creek2.2 miles14
Oak Grove4.2 miles12
Deerfield Center4.9 miles12
Fleming8.7 miles11
Nicholson9.4 miles13
Fowlerville9.5 miles11
Parshallville10.0 miles12

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 Q122560433The 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 623544. 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.