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Nisula, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Laird Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49952. It stands on Creeper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nisula quadrangle. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Nisula within Houghton County

On record in Nisula

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Nisula between 1992 and 2013, burning about 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
24 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAWBERRY LANE
10 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOttawa National Forestnot named
10 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 October 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresOttawa National ForestCOURTNEY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nisula in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019FloodNisula-Minor flooding was reported at the Sturgeon River near Alston during the afternoon the early evening of the 20th.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNisula-Numerous trees were knocked down.
April 2002HailNisula-3/4 inch hail was reported.
April 2002HailNisula-Nickel sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
White1.7 miles12
Alston2.2 miles12
Hazel4.4 miles13
Lake Roland9.0 miles12
Twin Lakes9.6 miles12
Wyandotte9.6 miles12
Winona9.6 miles13
Pori10.6 miles13

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 NisulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7041160The 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 1621015. 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.