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National City, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48748. The Survey maps it on the National City quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

National City within Iosco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of National City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRANGER
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSCHALT
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestWHITE ROCK
19 September 1999Debris and open burning11 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestGYPSUM
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAWAS CITY FD 0000075 - 2019
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLOOK
5 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNATIONAL
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITTEMORE VFD 0000029 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of National City: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tawas City Western Clay PitClayPast Producer
Michigan Gypsum Pit & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1960
Michigan Gypsum Pit and MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
National City QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1925
National Pit & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Natl Gypsum Co PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Tawas QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1950

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names National City in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindNational City$15,000A tree was downed onto a truck.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNational City$5,000Trees and large tree limbs were downed.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindNational City$2,000Public report of a tree blown down on top of a structure.
May 2000HailNational City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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
McIvor2.1 miles11
White Rock2.4 miles14
Turtle3.2 miles11
Hemlock3.2 miles14
Whittemore4.2 miles10
Meadow4.7 miles14
Sand Lake6.2 miles14
Alabaster Junction8.5 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.

Wikidata item Q136346738The 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 633225. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.