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Indian River, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tuscarora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49749. It stands on Sturgeon River. The Survey maps it on the Indian River quadrangle. 1,950 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Indian River within Cheboygan County

Population over time

2 figures

Indian River fell from 1,959 to 1,950 between 2010 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
20101,959
20201,950-9 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Indian River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2

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 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 08 - BIG SKY FIRE
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000115 - 2019
18 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNO ENGINE BOSS FIRE
1 August 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian River in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2007LightningIndian River1 hurtno account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindIndian River$25,000Numerous trees were downed. Some vehicles and homes were damaged by falling trees.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIndian River$22,000A second severe thunderstorm laid down a swath of downed trees and power lines from Indian River to Afton.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindIndian River$2,500Tree downed onto utility lines.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindIndian River$1,500Several large tree limbs were downed at the Indian River Golf Club.
July 2024FloodIndian River$1,000Broadcast media shared a photo of street flooding in Indian River. Water was up to the bottom of the body on a Volkswagen sedan.
October 2007HailIndian River-Thunderstorm winds estimated between 35 and 45 mph.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindIndian River-Several trees blown down. Two docks blown onto the shore of Burt Lake.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindIndian River-Strong winds downed several trees.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindIndian River-Several trees toppled along Wildwood road.
March 2016HailIndian River-no account filed
May 2011HailIndian River-no account filed
May 2011HailIndian River-no account filed
May 2011HailIndian River-no account filed
June 2005HailIndian River-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindIndian River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheboygan 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
Pittsburg Landing1.9 miles12
Chippewa Beach2.4 miles12
Kingsley Beach2.5 miles12
Wauban Beach2.7 miles12
Grand View Beach3.4 miles12
Cold Springs3.5 miles12
Miami Beach4.0 miles12
Springwell Heights4.4 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 Indian RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3052790The 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 629015. 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.