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Kewadin, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49648. The Survey maps it on the Alden quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Kewadin within Antrim County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Kewadin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 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 use8
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000108 - 2019
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELK RAPIDS TOWNSHIP FD 0015642 - 2019
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELK RAPIDS TOWNSHIP FD 0012443 - 2018
5 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2003Misuse of fire by a minor4.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH TORCH LAKE FD 66 - 2019
7 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kewadin in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKewadin$600,000Considerable wind damage occurred in southwest and south central Antrim County. Many hundreds of trees were downed in these areas, with some resulting in damage to vehicles and structures. Some side streets were difficult to access for a day or two after the storm. Between 40 and 50 structures suffered some amount of damage from the storm.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Kewadin$55,000An EF0 tornado crossed Williams Drive at the south end of Birch Lake, then dissipated over the lake. Maximum wind speed was estimated at 80 mph. Many trees were uprooted in the area, and a few homes were damaged by falling trees. Saturated soils likely contributed to the number of uprooted trees.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindKewadin$8,000Multiple trees were downed.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindKewadin$2,500Numerous downed trees and power lines.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKewadin$1,500Numerous tree limbs were downed. A slide was blown off of a playset in a backyard.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKewadin$500Tree limbs downed.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindKewadin-A spotter estimated wind gusts of 65 mph in Kewadin.
July 2006HailKewadin-Damage to fruit crops, especially apples, apricots, and cherries, as well as corn fields.
June 2011HailKewadin-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKewadin-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKewadin-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKewadin-no account filed
May 2001HailKewadin-no account filed
May 2001HailKewadin-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKewadin-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKewadin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
Elk Rapids3.2 miles12
Clam River5.1 miles12
Alden6.1 miles12
Creswell6.4 miles12
North Arms8.1 miles15
Bellaire9.3 miles15
Snowflake (historical)9.7 miles12
Torch Lake10.1 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 KewadinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122540349The 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 629640. 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.