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Kalkaska, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kalkaska Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49646. It stands on Vipond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kalkaska quadrangle. 2,132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

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Kalkaska within Kalkaska County

Population over time

2 figures

Kalkaska grew from 2,020 to 2,132 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
20102,020
20202,132+112 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Kalkaska between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 09 - VALLEY
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 08
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 07
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0020849 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kalkaska in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
June 2005LightningKalkaska1 hurtA woman was briefly hospitalized after a lightning strike at her home.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$25,000Over a hundred trees were downed, scattered across central and eastern Kalkaska County.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-$25,000Numerous trees were downed and power outages occurred along U.S, 131, from four miles north of Kalkaska to South Boardman.
June 2006Flash FloodKalkaska$20,000Nearly stationary thunderstorms developed in the pre-dawn hours, directly underneath a slow-moving upper level low pressure system. Radar estimated that around 4 inches of rain fell in a portion of the Rapid River basin, just north of Kalkaska. Flooding was enhanced by the failure of a beaver dam on a small creek. Part of Wood Road was washed out by the high water, and Smith and Holly Roads were also impacted. Traffic on US-131 at the Rapid River bridge was reduced to one lane for a time, as waters raged close to underside of the bridge.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$10,000Widespread tree and powerline damage over northern half of Kalkaska county between approximately 1055 and 1125 PM.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$8,000A number of trees and power lines were downed in Kalkaska and other parts of northern Kalkaska County.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$5,000A barn roof was torn off and blown 200 yards to the northeast. A number of trees were downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$4,000Trees downed at intersection of county road 571 and Twin Lake Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$3,000Pictures of multiple down trees in the village of Kalkaska. Time estimated via radar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKalkaska$2,000Reports of trees down from MPING.
June 2006HailKalkaska-Another day of pop-up afternoon thunderstorms, thanks to cold air aloft residing over the Great Lakes region. One storm produced nickel sized hail in Kalkaska County.
September 2004HailKalkaska-An isolated severe thunderstorm produced marginally large hail in Kalkaska.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Several trees and power lines down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Camper overturned.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Several 10 to 15 inch diameter trees downed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Several trees down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Trees and power lines down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Trees down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Trees and power lines down
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Several trees snapped off and/or uprooted.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Kalkaska-A tornado intermittently on the ground for around 7 miles destroyed one mobile home and damaged 2 others. The combination of tornadic and straight-line winds also downed numerous trees.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Kalkaska-Brief tornado touchdown with no reported damage.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Strong straight-line thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a building.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts to 90 mph tore the roof off one home and toppled trees onto several others.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
May 2001HailKalkaska-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKalkaska-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
Leetsville4.4 miles14
Crofton5.3 miles15
Lodi6.5 miles15
Cotton6.9 miles14
Darragh7.1 miles14
Spencer7.2 miles14
Sigma7.9 miles14
Barker Creek8.0 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 KalkaskaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1872475The 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 629450. 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.