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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.

Onekama within Manistee County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Onekama 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.

YearPeople Change
2010411
2020399-12 (-3%)

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

16 since 2007

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
24 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPOPLAR ROAD
22 May 2015Other causesunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFALK
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOATS
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestASP
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE FD 0020046 - 2020
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestKERRY ROAD
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMOONRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024HailOnekama$2,000,000Images 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 2024Thunderstorm WindOnekama$50,000Reports of wind damage, including uprooted trees, during large hail event in Onekama.
April 2024HailOnekama$50,000Hail report with photo from social media.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOnekama$12,000Several trees were downed. One tree in Onekama was left leaning on a home.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOnekama$5,000Social media pictures of multiple trees/large limbs downed.
April 2024HailOnekama-Social media image of up to inch size hail on a deck.
August 1998HailOnekama-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
Wic-a-te-wah1.1 miles9
Onekama Junction1.8 miles9
Red Park2.2 miles9
Norwalk2.7 miles9
Douglas3.0 miles9
Williamsport3.1 miles9
Maue Corners3.5 miles9
Pierport4.7 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 OnekamaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334643The 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.