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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.

Lincoln within Alcona County

Population over time

2 figures

Lincoln 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.

YearPeople Change
2010337
2020305-32 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

76 since 1992

Regional 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Natural3
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2004Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 26 - HAYBALE FIRE
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2016Fireworks2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Flash FloodLincoln$40,000Two 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 2004Thunderstorm WindLincoln-Wind gust estimated by a spotter.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindLincoln-Numerous trees snapped off and/or uprooted. Many powerlines down.
August 2011HailLincoln-no account filed
July 2008HailLincoln-no account filed
June 2008HailLincoln-no account filed
June 2005HailLincoln-no account filed
July 2004HailLincoln-no account filed
May 2002HailLincoln-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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
Gustin4.0 miles11
Killmaster4.2 miles11
Lost Lake Woods6.4 miles9
Mikado6.5 miles11
Harrisville6.5 miles11
Springport6.6 miles11
Alcona8.0 miles8
Greenbush8.4 miles11

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 LincolnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3025671The 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.