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Pewamo, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lyons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48873. The Survey maps it on the Hubbardston quadrangle. 503 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Pewamo within Ionia County

Population over time

2 figures

Pewamo grew from 469 to 503 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
2010469
2020503+34 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pewamo in 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALLAS TOWNSHIP FD 2019004 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLYONS-MUIR FD 0442019 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pewamo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Stockwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pewamo in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Pewamo$50,000An NWS storm survey concluded that an EF-0 tornado touched down near Pewamo. Several trees were blown down and structures were damaged. The tornado was on the ground for less than a mile.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPewamo$10,000Large limbs and power lines downed in Lyons Township and the city of Pewamo. One downed line started a minor fire on Decatur Trail in Pewamo.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPewamo$10,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPewamo$5,000A county official reported a large tree was blown down near Pewamo.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPewamo-Several trees uprooted or snapped. Section of a barn roof was blown off.
May 2022HailPewamo-Up to one inch diameter hail was reported across portions of Ionia county late in the evening.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Muir5.1 miles10
Lyons5.5 miles10
Hubbardston6.3 miles10
Collins7.1 miles10
Portland9.6 miles10
Prairie10.0 miles12
Palo10.6 miles11
Frost Corners11.0 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 PewamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2695275The 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 634746. 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.