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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.

Germfask within Schoolcraft County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

13 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROUTER WASH
15 August 2005Naturalunder an acreSeney National Wildlife RefugeJURASSIC
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSeney National Wildlife RefugeG TO D
8 July 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2013Natural1.0 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeLIGHTNING STRIKE
17 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeSENEY
15 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeLAWN MOWER MAN
7 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014HailGermfask-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 2014Heavy RainGermfask-The mesonet station at Germfask measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in 36 hours.
June 2010HailGermfask-Small branches were also snapped from trees.
June 2002HailGermfask-Three quarter inch hail was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGermfask-Large tree limbs down along M-77.
August 2010HailGermfask-no account filed
October 1995HailGermfask-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Seney6.7 miles12
Blaney Park9.2 miles11
Inland14.9 miles11
Walsh15.2 miles9
Blaney Junction15.5 miles11
Parkington16.5 miles11
Lavender Corner17.4 miles10
Gulliver18.3 miles7

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 GermfaskAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122590194The 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.