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Copemish, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cleon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49625. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Copemish quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Copemish within Manistee County

Population over time

2 figures

Copemish grew from 194 to 195 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
2010194
2020195+1 (+1%)

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

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Copemish between 1995 and 2019, burning about 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2001Fireworks2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTUMP FIRE
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestYATES
16 April 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2005Misuse of fire by a minor5.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANISTEE 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copemish in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 2 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
May 2019HailCopemish-no account filed
September 2005HailCopemish-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manistee 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
Pomona2.4 miles12
Humphrey7.3 miles10
Marilla8.0 miles13
Kaleva8.8 miles9
Pleasanton10.5 miles10
Malcolm12.4 miles9
Bear Lake12.7 miles9
Chief Lake13.2 miles9

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 CopemishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316579The 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 623800. 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.