Loehme, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48631. It stands on Waldo Drain. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle.

Loehme within Bay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Willard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

969 words on this township

History of Bay County Michigan, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Beaver Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Beaver Township - 969 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Loehme between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 334 - 2019
26 May 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 207 - 2019
27 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 164 - 2019
17 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000109 - 2018
12 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 117 - 2020
10 October 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 379 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Seidlers	1.2 miles	11
Beaver	1.5 miles	11
Willard	2.6 miles	11
Three Churches Corner	3.5 miles	11
North Williams	3.7 miles	11
Duel	4.5 miles	11
Crump	4.5 miles	11
Auburn	6.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122572147

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 1617687. 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.