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Herman, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in L'Anse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49946. The Survey maps it on the Herman quadrangle.

Herman within Baraga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Herman between 1994 and 2010, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
1 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Agency009
24 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Agency006
20 June 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Agency005
26 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.7 acresMichigan Agency006
18 November 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Herman: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Taylor MineIron, GraphitePast Producer1880, 1883
Taylor MineIronPast Producer1880
Detroit Graphite Co. Graphite QuarryGraphiteProducerGraphite
Detroit Graphite Co.Graphite QuarryGraphitePast Producer
Northern Graphite Works QuarryGraphiteProducerGraphite
Northern Graphite Works QuarryGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herman in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2019Flash FloodHerman$5,000The observer at Herman reported minor road washouts on Lystilla and Nestoria-Herman roads on the 25th due to flash flooding from heavy rains the night before.
June 2022HailHerman-The observer at Herman measured one-inch diameter hail from a thunderstorm on the evening of the 19th.
May 2018HailHerman-The observer in Herman measured one inch diameter hail.

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Bovine5.0 miles12
Alberta6.2 miles12
Tioga7.6 miles12
L'Anse7.7 miles12
Nestoria8.6 miles12
Zeba9.7 miles12
Baraga10.1 miles12
Vermilac10.6 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 HermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5739421The 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 628133. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.