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Nessen City, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49683. The Survey maps it on the Thompsonville quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Nessen City within Benzie County

Population over time

2 figures

Nessen City fell from 97 to 81 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
201097
202081-16 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Nessen City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 September 2004Smoking3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 04 - 8 RD FIRE
13 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMPSONVILLE VFD 1900034 - 2019
5 May 2005Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 1993Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSHACK
29 April 2001Fireworks2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLAIR TOWNSHIP FD 0000072 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nessen City in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
May 2019HailNessen City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benzie 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
Thompsonville3.5 miles14
Wallin3.6 miles14
Bendon8.1 miles15
Platte River10.2 miles15
Weldon10.3 miles11
Honor12.4 miles10
Averytown (historical)13.6 miles10
Benzonia13.6 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 Nessen CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6041160The 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 633296. 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.