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Houseman, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boardman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49680. The Survey maps it on the Fife Lake quadrangle.

Houseman within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Houseman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBOARDMAN TOWNSHIP FD 0020952 - 2019
21 September 2014Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 0002
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 07
10 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houseman in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindHouseman$1,500A large tree was downed along Coster Rd in Springfield Township.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHouseman$1,500Large tree downed just east of Fife Lake, just over the county line in Kalkaska County.
April 2024HailHouseman-Image on social media with ruler showing at least 1.5 inch hail.
June 2008HailHouseman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalkaska 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
South Boardman2.5 miles14
Deibert4.5 miles14
Crofton5.6 miles15
Giddings6.3 miles14
McGee7.1 miles14
Lodi7.3 miles15
Millers Corners8.4 miles14
Taffeltown8.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122594766The 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 1617629. 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.