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Ossineke, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sanborn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49766. It stands on North Branch Devils River. The Survey maps it on the Ossineke quadrangle. 932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Ossineke within Alpena County

Population over time

2 figures

Ossineke fell from 938 to 932 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
2010938
2020932-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ossineke between 1994 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 21
7 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2001Natural2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 22 - SWAMP KING
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 20
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 13 - LEBONTE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alpena County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossineke in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOssineke$15,000Numerous trees downed, one leaning onto a house. Another tree pulled up a gas line as it was being uprooted.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOssineke$3,000Downed trees across M-23 in Ossineke. Time estimated from radar.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOssineke-Spotter estimated wind gust.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOssineke-Several 24 inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOssineke-no account filed
June 2009HailOssineke-no account filed
July 2002HailOssineke-no account filed
June 2001HailOssineke-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindOssineke-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindOssineke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alpena 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
Hubbard Lake7.9 miles9
Alpena Junction10.8 miles8
Alpena11.0 miles8
McHarg12.9 miles8
Herron13.7 miles7
Paxton13.9 miles8
Emerson Station15.8 miles7
Spratt17.8 miles7

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 OssinekeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316653The 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 634144. 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.