Germfask, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Germfask Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49836. The Survey maps it on the Germfask quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
On record in Germfask
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.
Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridgelisted 1999 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Blaney NW quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Germfask quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Manistique Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Germfask between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,425 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROUTER WASH |
| 15 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | JURASSIC |
| 8 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | G TO D |
| 8 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 17 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | SENEY |
| 15 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | LAWN MOWER MAN |
| 7 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germfask in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014 | Hail | Germfask | - | There was a delayed public report of golf ball sized hail near Germfask. Hail size was estimated between 1.50 and 1.75 inches with hail nearly covering the ground. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Germfask | - | The mesonet station at Germfask measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in 36 hours. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Germfask | - | Small branches were also snapped from trees. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Germfask | - | Three quarter inch hail was reported. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germfask | - | Large tree limbs down along M-77. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Germfask | - | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Hail | Germfask | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seney | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Blaney Park | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Inland | 14.9 miles | 11 | |
| Walsh | 15.2 miles | 9 | |
| Blaney Junction | 15.5 miles | 11 | |
| Parkington | 16.5 miles | 11 | |
| Lavender Corner | 17.4 miles | 10 | |
| Gulliver | 18.3 miles | 7 |
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 Germfask | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122590194 | 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 626758. 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.






