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Pelkie, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Baraga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49958. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pelkie quadrangle.

Pelkie within Baraga County

On record in Pelkie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pelkie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 August 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Agency008
1 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOROSCOPE ROAD FIRE
15 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPELKIE VFD 02020-6 - 2020
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARAGA FD 2020-52 - 2020
24 June 2009Natural1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRISTMILL
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelkie in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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
May 2023FloodPelkie$500,000Runoff of liquid water equivalent of up to four inches in the higher terrain of Baraga County resulted in mostly minor snowmelt flooding of rural areas along rivers and small streams through much of the first half of May. Minor flooding occurred along the Sturgeon River during this time.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPelkie$40,00040 to 50 large trees were snapped off or uprooted between Pine Creek Road and just south of Highway M-38 near the Sturgeon River.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindPelkie$12,000The observer seven miles northwest of Baraga reported several large red pines and spruce trees down from thunderstorm winds. There were approximately 8 snapped trees and over 15 uprooted trees. Power was also knocked out from the storm from 930 pm EDT on the 25th until 7 am EDT on the 26th.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPelkie$7,000Law enforcement and social media photos indicated numerous trees, large branches and power lines down blocking roads in the Pelkie area.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPelkie$3,000Several trees and power lines down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPelkie$2,000Online photos received showed numerous spruce trees snapped just east of Pelkie. Time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPelkie$2,000Law enforcement reported downed trees on Froberg Road near Pelkie. Power outages were also reported in Baraga.
September 2010FloodPelkie$1,000The Sturgeon River overflowed at Halonen Road seven miles northwest of Baraga. The water was estimated to be one foot deep over the road.
July 2022HailPelkie-Nickel-sized hail was reported in Alston via Facebook. Time of the report was estimated from radar. The hail lasted several minutes.
July 2022HailPelkie-Nickel-sized hail reported in Pelkie based on Facebook photo posted online. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2018HailPelkie-The spotter near Pelkie reported nickel-sized hail.
June 2018HailPelkie-There was a public report of penny-sized hail near Pelkie.
July 2016HailPelkie-The observer seven miles northwest of Baraga measured one inch diameter hail.
August 2014Heavy RainPelkie-The observing station near Pelkie measured 1.38 inches of rainfall in just over ten hours.
September 2014Heavy RainPelkie-Rainfall totals between 1.5 and 2.5 inches were reported across Baraga County in approximately a 15-hour period.
June 2012Heavy RainPelkie-The Pelkie RAWS station measured over one and a half inches of storm total rainfall.
July 2012Heavy RainPelkie-Observer measured 2.35 inches of rain 5 miles west-northwest of Baraga.
August 2009Heavy RainPelkie-An observer seven miles northwest of Baraga measured 1.75 inches of rain.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindPelkie-The observer reported a tree down near Pelkie.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPelkie-Four-inch diameter trees down with small hail reported.
April 2002HailPelkie-1 1/2 inch diameter hail was reported.
April 2002HailPelkie-1 inch diameter hail was reported.
April 2002HailPelkie-1 inch hail was reported.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPelkie-An automatic weather station reported a 64 mph wind gust.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPelkie-no account filed
May 2006Heavy RainPelkie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Bear Town6.7 miles12
Baraga8.2 miles12
Assinins8.4 miles12
Keweenaw Bay8.8 miles12
L'Anse10.5 miles12
Arnheim10.8 miles12
Zeba11.8 miles12
Bovine12.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621187. 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.