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Kalamo, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kalamo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49096. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle.

Kalamo within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kalamo between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2

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
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERMONTVILLE FD 0000062 - 2018
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERMONTVILLE FD 0000054 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000073 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000068 - 2018
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERMONTVILLE FD 0000050 - 2019
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLOTTE FD 0000211 - 2019
7 March 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 0020-76 - 2020
30 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLOTTE FD 0000183 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kalamo: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Crandell Ionia Road Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kalamo in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindKalamo$1,000,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKalamo$40,000Trees and limbs were blown down near the intersection of Carlisle and Mason roads and a chimney was blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKalamo-Trees snapped with one uprooted tree across a road.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Carlisle2.6 miles11
Ainger5.9 miles14
Vermontville6.0 miles10
Chester6.8 miles11
Bellevue6.9 miles18
Olivet8.4 miles14
Stalls Corner9.2 miles10
Gresham9.2 miles10

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 Q122594538The 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 629448. 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.