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Nahma, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nahma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49864. It stands on Sturgeon River. The Survey maps it on the Nahma quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Nahma within Delta County

On record in Nahma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Nahma between 1995 and 2018, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 August 2005Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresHiawatha National ForestCENTENNIAL
20 June 2016Other causesunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMAC
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestLL FIRE
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRIVER FIRE
18 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAHMA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2018
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestEE FIRE
1 May 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresHiawatha National ForestECONOLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nahma in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
April 2022FloodNahma-Snowmelt combined with periods of heavy rain resulted in minor flooding along the Sturgeon River near Nahma Junction in Delta County in mid-April.
August 2004HailNahma-Three-quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNahma-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNahma-large trees down across highway 13

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Nahma Junction4.5 miles10
Isabella4.9 miles10
Saint Jacques5.6 miles10
Ogontz7.0 miles9
Garden Corners7.5 miles10
Garden7.6 miles10
Devils Corner7.8 miles9
Fayette8.6 miles9

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 Q136353068The 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 1620977. 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.