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.
Population over time
2 figuresOssineke 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 938 | |
| 2020 | 932 | -6 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Ossineke quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
37 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPENA 21 |
| 7 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2001 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPENA 22 - SWAMP KING |
| 24 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPENA 20 |
| 16 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 13 - LEBONTE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | $15,000 | Numerous trees downed, one leaning onto a house. Another tree pulled up a gas line as it was being uprooted. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | $3,000 | Downed trees across M-23 in Ossineke. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | - | Spotter estimated wind gust. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | - | Several 24 inch diameter trees were blown down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ossineke | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Ossineke | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ossineke | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ossineke | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubbard Lake | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Alpena Junction | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Alpena | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| McHarg | 12.9 miles | 8 | |
| Herron | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Paxton | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Emerson Station | 15.8 miles | 7 | |
| Spratt | 17.8 miles | 7 |
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 Ossineke | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316653 | 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 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.



