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Posen, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Posen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49776. The Survey maps it on the Posen quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Posen within Presque Isle County

Population over time

2 figures

Posen grew from 234 to 270 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
2010234
2020270+36 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Posen between 2005 and 2020, burning about 20 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWILSON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 29 - 2020
26 April 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOSEN AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0019049 - 2019
25 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use11 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03
23 April 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 01
16 April 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROGERS CITY FD 2020049 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Posen in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2004HailPosen1 hurt, $3,500,000A devastating hailstorm caused extensive damage in the small town of Posen. The hail was driven at times by wind gusts around 60 mph. Most buildings and vehicles in the community suffered some sort of damage. Holes were punched in roofs and siding; cars were dented, and windows broken. Buildings that had siding damage were damaged almost exclusively on their south side. The storm spawned hundreds of insurance claims. A local church had to patch 300 holes in its roof. Damage to a school roof was estimated at nearly $200,000, and a local greenhouse lost over a thousand two-foot by two-foot window panes. One individual suffered a badly bruised back as he tried to move his vehicle to shelter. Substantial damage was done to crops (largely potatoes, with some beans, tomatoes and corn in the mix) in nearby fields.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPosen$4,000Several large trees were downed in the Grand Lake area. Presque Isle Lighthouse measured a wind gust of 54 knots.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPosen$2,000Two trees and one power pole were downed.
May 2022HailPosen-Baseball sized hail was reported in Posen.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPosen-Trees were downed.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Posen-Brief touchdown lifted truck off ground, blew off barn doors and downed a few large trees.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindPosen-Numerous trees down. Most damage was to Apple and Poplar trees. Some trees fell on homes and power lines.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPosen-Trees snapped off and/or uprooted across the area. Some powerlines also down.
August 2009HailPosen-no account filed
June 2005HailPosen-no account filed
June 2001HailPosen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presque Isle 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
Orchard2.6 miles7
Polaski2.9 miles7
Liske5.5 miles7
Metz5.8 miles7
Hagensville6.6 miles7
Belknap9.1 miles7
Leroy9.9 miles7
Hawks10.4 miles8

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 PosenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2454590The 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 635315. 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.