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Lewiston, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Albert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49756. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. 996 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Lewiston within Montmorency County

Population over time

2 figures

Lewiston fell from 1,392 to 996 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
20101,392
2020996-396 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Lewiston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000330 - 2019
24 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 14
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000303 - 2019
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000291 - 2019
10 August 2007Recreation and ceremony26 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000250 - 2019
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2012Arson/incendiarism24 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 26 - 4 CORNERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montmorency County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lewiston: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Glancy Montmorency County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winkleman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montmorency County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindLewiston1 hurt, $40,000Numerous trees were downed in southwest Montmorency County. Most of the damage was near Lewiston. A truck was struck by a falling tree, injuring the driver. Two garages in Lewiston were damaged by falling trees. Shingles were torn off of some roofs.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindLewiston$500,000Thunderstorm winds, with gusts estimated to over 100 mph, caused massive tree damage and some structural damage to homes and cabins, mainly due to fallen trees.
July 1999Tornado (F1)Lewiston$60,00060 yard wide swath of trees snapped off 8 feet above the ground. 3 homes damaged. Several mobile homes damaged. Tornado continued into Oscoda county.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLewiston$28,000Many trees were snapped off. High winds on East Twin Lake flipped over pontoon boats, and damage some docks.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLewiston$10,000Numerous trees were downed in and just east of Lewiston. Multiple streets were blocked by fallen trees.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLewiston$5,000Multiple trees were downed in Lewiston.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLewiston$4,000Half a dozen trees were downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLewiston$3,000Trees and power lines downed near Vienna.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLewiston$1,000A cluster of thunderstorms downed a large tree near Lewiston.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A trained spotter estimated winds to 60 to 65 mph.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Numerous trees and limbs downed on County Road 612 just west of M-33.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Several trees and power lines down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Hundreds of trees down around Wolf Lake. Several homes had roof damage
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A spotter reported that 50 mph winds blew down numerous nine inch trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLewiston-A spotter reported six to eight inch tree limbs downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2020HailLewiston-no account filed
July 2016HailLewiston-no account filed
April 2011HailLewiston-no account filed
June 2005HailLewiston-no account filed
July 2003HailLewiston-no account filed
July 2003HailLewiston-no account filed
April 2002HailLewiston-no account filed
April 1994HailLewiston-no account filed
April 1993HailLewiston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montmorency 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
Vienna Junction1.0 miles16
Birchwood Beach1.2 miles16
Garland Village1.7 miles16
Bigelow6.7 miles16
Donnelly7.6 miles16
Hetherton9.5 miles13
Atlanta12.0 miles12
Avery15.4 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 LewistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2682156The 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 630355. 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.