Onondaga, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Onondaga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49264. The Survey maps it on the Onondaga quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Onondaga within Ingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1919 USGS Springport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1921 USGS Springport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Onondaga quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Onondaga between 2018 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	2
Smoking	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 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EATON RAPIDS FD 305 - 2020
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 66 - 2019
4 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ONONDAGA FD 57 - 2018
21 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 0000164 - 2018
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 150 - 2019
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ONONDAGA FD 66 - 2019
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 68 - 2019
13 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ONONDAGA FD 79 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onondaga in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 4 hail, 4 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
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Onondaga	$1,000,000	A damage path of nearly 20 miles in length and 0.5-1 mile in width was caused by a bowing segment of an MCS. The path extended from Onondaga northeast to Vantown. As a result of the high winds, numerous large trees were wither uprooted or snapped. Some homes sustained roof damage as well as some barns.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Onondaga	$15,000	Numerous trees were blown down in the Onondaga area.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Onondaga	-	Widely scattered tree damage began 1.75 miles east-northeast of Onondaga and continued just north of due east into Leslie. There was a successive failure of 32 power poles on a north-south powerline about 1 mile west of Leslie. Speaking with an engineer on the scene, his thought was that the wooden poles were not quite robust enough to handle the weight of the 6 conductors and that the failure was preceeded by one or two poles that had started to lean due to wet ground conditions over the past several months. The thunderstorm wind gust was then enough to overload one of the leaning poles causing it to snap near its base. The falling pole then pulled on adjacent poles initiating a cascading failure both north and south of the initial failure. The cascading failure was witnessed by a nearby resident. The wooden poles were being replaced with steel towers.
July 2008	Hail	Onondaga	-	One inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter just northwest of Onondaga.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onondaga	-	Multiple power lines were blown down between Onondaga roads and Bunker and Poles roads.
June 1998	Hail	Onondaga	-	A trained weather spotter reported baseball-sized hail and wind gusts to 50 mph. Hail reportedly damaged some auto glass and roofs in the area, but damage estimates were not available.
March 2026	Hail	Onondaga	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Onondaga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kinneville	1.6 miles	12
Aurelius	5.9 miles	13
North Leslie	6.7 miles	11
Leslie	6.9 miles	11
Eden	9.0 miles	11
North Aurelius	9.6 miles	13
Mason	11.2 miles	11
Bunker Hill	13.2 miles	13

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 Onondaga	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7094485	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 634074. 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.