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Osseo, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49266. It stands on Otto Drain. The Survey maps it on the North Adams quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Osseo within Hillsdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Osseo between 1996 and 2020, burning about 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE/RESCUE F202027 - 2020
5 August 2018Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHILLSDALE CITY FD 0000796 - 2018
19 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19056 - 2019
18 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSON FD 0000091 - 2018
30 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 20028 - 2020
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19021 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19027 - 2019
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 18036 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osseo in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOsseo$20,000Partial barn collapse. Barn looks old and in poor condition.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindOsseo$10,000Hillsdale County Emergency Operations reported trees and electrical wires downed 3 miles southeast of Hillsdale near Osseo and Pleasant Lake, in Jefferson Township. Power was cut for approximately 400 Consumers Energy customers.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOsseo$5,000The public reports that trees are down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOsseo$5,000Trees and power lines reported blown down near Osseo.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindOsseo$5,000Hillsdale County Central Dispatch reported power lines downed in Osseo and Jefferson Township.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindOsseo-Several power lines and trees down in Jefferson Township.
August 2015HailOsseo-no account filed
May 2007HailOsseo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Steamburg3.7 miles11
Fountain Park3.8 miles10
Pittsford3.9 miles9
Shadyside4.4 miles10
Hillsdale5.2 miles10
North Adams5.9 miles11
Locust Corners6.6 miles10
Ransom7.6 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 OsseoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q123312277The 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 634143. 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.