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Falmouth, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Clam Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49632. The Survey maps it on the Falmouth quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Falmouth within Missaukee County

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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Falmouth between 1992 and 2019, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
4 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE MISSAUKEE FD 0000049 - 2019
11 August 2001Debris and open burning23 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 07 - FORWARD ROAD FIRE
24 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 09
11 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 08 - WEST FALMOUTH
13 June 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 05
4 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGOLDEN RETRIEVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missaukee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falmouth in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2004: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$10,000Several large trees were downed, and some buildings sustained roof and shingle damage.
May 2004Flash FloodFalmouth-The intersections of Falmouth and Thirteen Mile Roads, and Prosper and Eight Mile Roads, were inundated.
July 2003HailFalmouth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Missaukee 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
Prosper2.9 miles11
Dinca3.0 miles12
Vogel Center4.0 miles11
Keelans Corner6.5 miles12
Moddersville7.3 miles12
Butterfield7.5 miles12
McBain7.5 miles11
Lake City9.3 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.

Wikipedia article on FalmouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888454The 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 625817. 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.