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.
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
Bay de Noquet Lumber Company Waste Burnerlisted 2011
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Garden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Manistique quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Nahma quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.1 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | CENTENNIAL |
| 20 June 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MAC |
| 7 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | LL FIRE |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RIVER FIRE |
| 18 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAHMA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2018 |
| 18 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | EE FIRE |
| 1 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | ECONOLINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Flood | Nahma | - | 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 2004 | Hail | Nahma | - | Three-quarter inch diameter hail was reported. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nahma | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nahma | - | large trees down across highway 13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nahma Junction | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Isabella | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Jacques | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Ogontz | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Garden Corners | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Garden | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Devils Corner | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Fayette | 8.6 miles | 9 |
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 Q136353068 | 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 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.





