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Hemlock, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48626. The Survey maps it on the Hemlock quadrangle. 1,408 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Hemlock within Saginaw County

Population over time

3 figures

Hemlock fell from 1,585 to 1,408 between 2000 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
20001,585
20101,466-119 (-8%)
20201,408-58 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hemlock between 2003 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 3 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 use9
Natural3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 480 - 2019
6 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 476 - 2019
10 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 174 - 2020
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 148 - 2020
1 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 112 - 2020
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 128 - 2018
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 76 - 2020
4 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemlock in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2007LightningHemlock$10,000Law enforcement reported a house struck by lightning.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHemlock$5,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHemlock$3,000Powerlines were reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHemlock-Seven large trees blown down, 3 of them fell onto houses.
June 2011Flash FloodHemlock-GoldFinch road was closed due flooding, 2 feet of water reported on roads.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHemlock-Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches reported down.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Hemlock-A trained weather spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown. A subsequent NWS storm survey confirmed the weak tornado, which caused fallen trees and power lines.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHemlock-Large trees and tree limbs were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHemlock-Two trees were reported blown down.
June 2005HailHemlock-no account filed
May 1997HailHemlock-no account filed
June 1994HailHemlock-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
Iva3.9 miles12
Orr4.0 miles15
Roosevelt5.0 miles15
Merrill5.2 miles12
Nelson5.6 miles15
Frost6.4 miles15
Garfield6.7 miles15
Lakefield7.1 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 HemlockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2040930The 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 628079. 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.