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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.

Elberta within Benzie County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Elberta 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.

YearPeople Change
2010372
2020329-43 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018
27 May 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000036 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000026 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benzie County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walter Rohn PropertySilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Benzie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005HailElberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benzie 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
Frankfort1.1 miles11
Pilgrim3.3 miles11
Crystallia3.9 miles11
Watervale4.6 miles10
Chimney Corners Resort4.9 miles11
Oberlin (historical)5.1 miles11
Benzonia6.7 miles11
Beulah7.2 miles10

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 ElbertaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2676883The 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.