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Frankenmuth, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Frankenmuth City. It lies in ZIP code area 48734. The Survey maps it on the Frankenmuth quadrangle. 4,987 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Frankenmuth within Saginaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Frankenmuth grew from 4,944 to 4,987 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
20104,944
20204,987+43 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Frankenmuth between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 4 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 use8
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
5 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 110 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 270 - 2018
24 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 301 - 2019
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 73 - 2018
8 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 47 - 2020
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2019
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 152 - 2020
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 36 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankenmuth in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 1996Tornado (F3)Frankenmuth$5,000,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth$50,000no account filed
July 1999LightningFrankenmuth$12,000A lightning strike took out a transformer, and blew the chimney off of a home.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth$2,000Power lines were blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth-Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth-A large tree limb was blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth-Several trees and wires were reported down, along with a shed blown over.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFrankenmuth-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
August 2007HailFrankenmuth-no account filed
May 2001HailFrankenmuth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Gera3.8 miles10
Winter's Motor Court4.7 miles16
Cassbridge (historical)5.2 miles16
Frankentrost5.9 miles16
Birch Run6.3 miles16
Blumfield Corners6.5 miles10
Bridgeport7.8 miles16
Morseville9.4 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 FrankenmuthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q261711The 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 626405. 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.