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Powers, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spalding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49874. It stands on Alder Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hermansville quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Powers within Menominee County

Population over time

2 figures

Powers fell from 422 to 381 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
2010422
2020381-41 (-10%)

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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Powers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING CREEK
18 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPALDING TOWNSHIP FD 22 - 2020
5 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2010Debris and open burning7.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAVER DAM
3 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Powers: 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
Menominee County Piche PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powers in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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
September 2014LightningPowers1 hurtA man was struck by lightning in Powers but was reported to be conscious and bleeding.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPowers$8,000The Menominee County Sheriff's Office reported numerous trees and power lines down across the northern portion of Menominee County.
August 2015HailPowers-Dime sized hail observed near Powers. Report was relayed via social media, and time was estimated from radar.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPowers-Several 2 to 3 inch diameter trees were uprooted.
July 2003HailPowers-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPowers-A few trees down over roads. Hail dented a few cars.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPowers-Branches down on roads.
October 1996HailPowers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Spalding0.9 miles7
Hermansville4.3 miles7
Wilson4.8 miles7
Nadeau5.8 miles7
Houle6.9 miles7
Carney7.3 miles7
Vega7.8 miles9
Indiantown8.0 miles7

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 PowersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2304625The 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 635379. 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.