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Oak Hill, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Filer Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49660. The Survey maps it on the Manistee quadrangle. 545 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Oak Hill within Manistee County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Hill fell from 569 to 545 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
2010569
2020545-24 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

66 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
16 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMADISON SCHOOL
25 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOUNTY LINE
25 August 2009Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCONDO
21 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHARRIS ROAD
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestEAST LAKE ROAD
5 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTOP SIGN
5 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan AgencyLRBHOUSING
31 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSTEPHENS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oak Hill: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine. 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
Morton Salt Company- ManisteeBromineProducer1892
Morton-ManisteeMagnesite, BromineProducer1940
Martin Marietta-ManisteeMagnesiteProducer1944, 1969
Martin-Marietta Chem.--Manistee, MiMagnesiteProducer
Martin-Marietta Chemicals (Manistee)MagnesiteProducerSedimentary
Morton Chem Co--Manistee, Mich.MagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 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
July 2019Flash FloodOak Hill$3,500,000Thunderstorms moved repeatedly over Manistee County in the morning and afternoon of the 20th. Excessive rainfall produced substantial flooding across central and southern Manistee County. By late on the 20th, rainfall totals reached 8.90 in Parkdale (near Manistee), and 5.95 in Wellston. Water entered numerous homes and stores in the greater Manistee area, and in Dublin, resulting in property damage. The campground at Orchard Beach State Park was at one point under four feet of water. Many roads were flooded and closed to travel for several hours. 12th Street in the city of Manistee was washed out. Places near the Manistee River were most susceptible to flooding.
June 2008Flash FloodOak Hill$970,000Spotters in Manistee and Wellston measured around six inches of rain in a few hours very late on the 12th into the pre-dawn hours of the 13th. Radar estimated up to ten inches of rainfall along the southern border of Manistee County. Substantial flash flooding resulted, with considerable soil erosion, thanks in part to the sandy soils of the area. At one point the majority of roads in the south half of Manistee County were under water. High water entered some homes. In the city of Manistee, asphalt, stop signs, and light posts were flushed into Lake Michigan by the raging waters. The county road commission estimated $500,000 in damages to the county road system.
July 2019FloodOak Hill-See earlier flash flood event in Manistee County. Flooding lingered in southern Manistee County for much of the following night, with numerous roads closed and barricaded.

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
Filer City1.1 miles10
East Lake1.4 miles10
Stronach1.7 miles10
Manistee1.7 miles10
Parkdale3.0 miles9
Bar Lake5.0 miles9
Newland6.2 miles9
Douglas8.0 miles9

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 Oak HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6047837The 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 1621085. 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.