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.
Population over time
2 figuresPosen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 234 | |
| 2020 | 270 | +36 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Alpena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Alpena quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alpena quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Alpena quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Posen quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Alpena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WILSON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 29 - 2020 |
| 26 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | POSEN AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0019049 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PRESQUE ISLE 03 |
| 23 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PRESQUE ISLE 01 |
| 16 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROGERS CITY FD 2020049 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Hail | Posen | 1 hurt, $3,500,000 | A 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Posen | $4,000 | Several large trees were downed in the Grand Lake area. Presque Isle Lighthouse measured a wind gust of 54 knots. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Posen | $2,000 | Two trees and one power pole were downed. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Posen | - | Baseball sized hail was reported in Posen. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Posen | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Posen | - | Brief touchdown lifted truck off ground, blew off barn doors and downed a few large trees. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Posen | - | Numerous trees down. Most damage was to Apple and Poplar trees. Some trees fell on homes and power lines. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Posen | - | Trees snapped off and/or uprooted across the area. Some powerlines also down. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Posen | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Posen | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Posen | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Posen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2454590 | The 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.





