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Elm Hall, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sumner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48877. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Elm Hall within Gratiot County

On record in Elm Hall

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Elm Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000031 - 2019
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use24 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTCALM 01
9 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0031-18 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000072 - 2019
27 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0053-19 - 2019
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018
19 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000079 - 2020
1 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000066 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elm Hall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Elm Hall Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gratiot 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
Riverdale1.4 miles10
Sumner4.1 miles11
Elwell5.0 miles14
Eugene8.5 miles14
New Haven Center8.6 miles10
Summerton9.1 miles14
Forest Hill9.4 miles14
Alma9.4 miles14

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 Elm HallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113516743The 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 625508. 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.