New Era, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shelby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49446. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. 446 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Era fell from 451 to 446 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 451 | |
| 2020 | 446 | -5 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Hart SE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Hart SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of New Era between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 11 |
| 9 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHELBY-BENONA FD 0000084 - 2019 |
| 8 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 17 |
| 8 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 11 |
| 5 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 08 |
| 30 July 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2012 | Smoking | 1.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 09 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Era: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Beckman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Era in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Hail | New Era | $20,000 | Two reports of one inch diameter hail was received from New Era. |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Era | $15,000 | Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in New Era by amateur radio operators. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Era | $10,000 | The Oceana county road commission reported that several trees were blown down along Arthur road that blocked the road. |
| August 2002 | Hail | New Era | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | New Era | - | The public reported one inch diameter hail. |
| June 2014 | Hail | New Era | - | One inch diameter hail was reported by the public near New Era. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Era | - | Several large limbs, exceeding eight inches in diameter, were broken off trees. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Era | - | Numerous trees were reported down throughout the village. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rothbury | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Ferry | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Stony Lake | 8.2 miles | 7 | |
| Mears | 9.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hart | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Elbridge | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Little Point Sable | 11.4 miles | 6 |
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 New Era | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q648053 | 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 1621001. 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.






