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Omer, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Arenac Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48749. The Survey maps it on the Omer quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Omer within Arenac County

On record in Omer

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

Population over time

2 figures

Omer fell from 313 to 274 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
2010313
2020274-39 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Omer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 700 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
21 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 07
16 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 0004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac 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 Omer: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Eastman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Clay PitClayPast Producer
Arenac Pit-Bessinger Co Rd CommStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
M.J.Griffin Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer
Mc Donnell Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer
Omsted Building Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omer in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindOmer4 hurt, $27,000A large tree fell onto two RV's at the Big Bend Campground on Conrad Rd, near Omer. One RV was destroyed, the other suffered only minor damage. Four campers inside one of the trailers were injured, thankfully none of them seriously.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindOmer$5,000Scattered trees and power lines were downed.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindOmer$3,000Arenac county dispatch reported trees down near Omer. Time estimated via radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOmer-Strong downburst thunderstorm winds downed several trees in the Omer area, resulting in power outages.

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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
Arenac2.9 miles10
Pine River4.8 miles10
Twining5.2 miles10
Standish7.1 miles10
Knights Mill7.2 miles11
Turner7.4 miles10
Maple Ridge7.6 miles10
Whites Beach8.4 miles10

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 OmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973758The 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 634057. 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.