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Pokagon, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pokagon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49120. The Survey maps it on the Sumnerville quadrangle.

Pokagon within Cass County

On record in Pokagon

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pokagon between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2019278 - 2019
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2019238 - 2019
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASSOPOLIS VFD 0000067 - 2019
22 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2018131 - 2018
15 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASSOPOLIS VFD 0000071 - 2019
3 April 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOKAGON VFD 2019022 - 2019
26 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 49 - 2018
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2018102 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pokagon: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Poehlman Marl PitLimestone, GeneralProducer
Cass Co Pit Yerington ConstSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Niles Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Three S Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pokagon in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindPokagon1 killedLocal law enforcement reported a large tree limb fell onto the cab of a vehicle, spun the limb into the road way while the vehicle continued westbound, striking another tree on the side of the road. A 17 year old male was pronounced dead at the scene.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPokagon$25,000Trees and power lines reported downed in Pokagon Township, in western Cass County.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Sumnerville1.6 miles14
Dailey4.9 miles14
Dowagiac6.1 miles14
Beechwood6.6 miles10
Indian Lake6.6 miles10
Birch Crest Estates7.4 miles14
La Grange7.7 miles14
Cassopolis8.8 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122554107The 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 635203. 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.