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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.

New Era within Oceana County

Population over time

2 figures

New 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.

YearPeople Change
2010451
2020446-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

31 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
9 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY-BENONA FD 0000084 - 2019
8 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 17
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 08
30 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2012Smoking1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 09

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beckman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beckman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003HailNew Era$20,000Two reports of one inch diameter hail was received from New Era.
May 2004HailNew Era$15,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in New Era by amateur radio operators.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Era$10,000The Oceana county road commission reported that several trees were blown down along Arthur road that blocked the road.
August 2002HailNew Era$10,000no account filed
May 2022HailNew Era-The public reported one inch diameter hail.
June 2014HailNew Era-One inch diameter hail was reported by the public near New Era.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Era-Several large limbs, exceeding eight inches in diameter, were broken off trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Era-Numerous trees were reported down throughout the village.

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
Shelby3.5 miles11
Rothbury3.6 miles11
Ferry6.6 miles11
Stony Lake8.2 miles7
Mears9.3 miles11
Hart9.7 miles12
Elbridge11.0 miles11
Little Point Sable11.4 miles6

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 EraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q648053The 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.