Onekama, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Onekama Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49675. It stands on Schimke Creek. The Survey maps it on the Onekama quadrangle. 399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.
On record in Onekama
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 2 records
Manistee County Courthouse Fountainlisted 1988
Portage Point Inn Complexlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresOnekama fell from 411 to 399 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 411 | |
| 2020 | 399 | -12 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Onekama quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Onekama SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Onekama quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Onekama between 2007 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | POPLAR ROAD |
| 22 May 2015 | Other causes | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | FALK |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018 |
| 14 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | COATS |
| 14 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | ASP |
| 5 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEAR LAKE FD 0020046 - 2020 |
| 3 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | KERRY ROAD |
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MOONRIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onekama in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Hail | Onekama | $2,000,000 | Images shared on social media from Zosel St. in Onekama of measured 2 inch hail. Damage to vehicles and home siding. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onekama | $50,000 | Reports of wind damage, including uprooted trees, during large hail event in Onekama. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Onekama | $50,000 | Hail report with photo from social media. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onekama | $12,000 | Several trees were downed. One tree in Onekama was left leaning on a home. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onekama | $5,000 | Social media pictures of multiple trees/large limbs downed. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Onekama | - | Social media image of up to inch size hail on a deck. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Onekama | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wic-a-te-wah | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Onekama Junction | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Red Park | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Norwalk | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Williamsport | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Maue Corners | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pierport | 4.7 miles | 9 |
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 Onekama | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334643 | The 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 1621108. 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.





