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Parma, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sandstone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49269. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle. 780 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Parma within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Parma grew from 769 to 780 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
2010769
2020780+11 (+1%)

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.

Fires near this place

33 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Parma between 2009 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 0000520 - 2019
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 517 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 469 - 2020
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 550 - 2020
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 428 - 2020
2 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 0000357 - 2018
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 489 - 2020
11 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 126 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Parma: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jeffrey Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spring Arbor Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parma Sandstone ExposureSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Parma Sandstone OutcropSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Pickett & Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parma in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 14 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 2021Thunderstorm WindParma$50,000Trained spotters reported that several large trees and tree limbs were blown down.
May 1999HailParma$50,0000.75" hail was reported in Parma. Numerous trees and power lines were also brought down in the Napoleon and Clark Lake areas.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindParma$50,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindParma$25,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindParma$20,000Several trees were blown down in Parma and also in Jackson by thunderstorm wind gusts, as reported by local law enforecement.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindParma$15,000Several trees were blown down two miles east of Parma.
April 2008HailParma$10,000Hail briefly covered the ground in Parma and there were also several reports of broken windshields.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindParma$10,000Twelve trees were blown down in and near Parma.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindParma$10,000Jackson County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines were downed in Parma Township.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindParma$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindParma$10,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindParma$10,000no account filed
June 2019HailParma$5,000Hail up to around one and three quarters of an inch in diameter was reported.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindParma$3,000no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindParma-Widely scattered tree damage was observed from about one mile west of Parma to 18 miles east-northeast of Parma. The swath was 2 to 3 miles wide. Other than tree damage a highway billboard was blown down on Interstate-94 just outside of Parma. Several eyewitnesses were interviewed to confirm that damage was from second storm.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindParma-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindParma-Jackson County Emergency Management reported wind gusts to 60 mph in Parma Township along with scattered reports of trees and power lines having been felled.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Sandstone4.4 miles12
Spring Arbor4.4 miles11
Concord6.0 miles11
Minards Mill6.1 miles12
Woodville6.2 miles12
Devereaux7.2 miles13
Tompkins8.5 miles12
Horton8.6 miles11

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 ParmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2545183The 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 634419. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.