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Norwalk, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49660. The Survey maps it on the Onekama quadrangle.

Norwalk within Manistee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Norwalk between 1994 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestMAIDENS ROAD
21 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSKOCELAS ROAD
13 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMESSYCAMP
5 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBEAR CREEK #1
26 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCAMPER
2 July 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCOHO BEND
7 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNORTH SKOCELS
28 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCHIEF ROAD, ALPHA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwalk in 1 storm report in 2011: 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 2011HailNorwalk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manistee 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
Maue Corners1.8 miles9
Onekama Junction2.2 miles9
Onekama2.7 miles9
Chief Lake3.2 miles9
Wic-a-te-wah3.4 miles9
Douglas3.5 miles9
Red Park4.3 miles9
Newland5.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621064. 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.