Lincoln, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gustin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48742. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLincoln fell from 337 to 305 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 337 | |
| 2020 | 305 | -32 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
76 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln between 1992 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 26 - HAYBALE FIRE |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2016 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Lincoln | $40,000 | Two separate rain gauges in the Lincoln area measured around seven inches of rain in a three-hour period. Numerous roads in the Lincoln area were inundated and closed for part of the evening, including Gehres and Barlow Roads. A number of basements were flooded. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | - | Wind gust estimated by a spotter. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | - | Numerous trees snapped off and/or uprooted. Many powerlines down. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustin | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Killmaster | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Lost Lake Woods | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Mikado | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Harrisville | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Springport | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Alcona | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Greenbush | 8.4 miles | 11 |
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 Lincoln | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3025671 | The 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 630440. 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.




