Elberta, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gilmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49628. It sits by Elberta Bluffs. The Survey maps it on the Elberta quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.
On record in Elberta
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
CITY OF MILWAUKEENational Historic Landmark · listed 1990 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresElberta fell from 372 to 329 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 | 372 | |
| 2020 | 329 | -43 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Frankfort SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Elberta quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Elberta between 2001 and 2019, burning about 13 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018 |
| 27 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000036 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000026 - 2019 |
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 Elberta: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzie County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Walter Rohn Property | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elberta in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2005 | Hail | Elberta | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfort | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Pilgrim | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Crystallia | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Watervale | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Chimney Corners Resort | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Oberlin (historical) | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Benzonia | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Beulah | 7.2 miles | 10 |
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 Elberta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2676883 | 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 625422. 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.





