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Remus, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49340. The Survey maps it on the Mecosta quadrangle. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Remus within Mecosta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Remus between 2001 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 01
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 02
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 03
27 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 04
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHEATLAND TOWNSHIP FD 190132 - 2019
3 May 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 04
3 May 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 03
2 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 02 - ARTHUR RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mecosta County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Remus in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindRemus$10,000A few trees were blown down near Remus.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRemus$5,000A couple of trees were blown down or snapped off and several large tree limbs were blown down two to three miles north northwest of Remus.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRemus$4,000Numerous trees were reported down across the extreme southern area of the county. Power poles were snapped off along One Mile Road in the southeast corner of the county.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindRemus$2,000no account filed
May 2022HailRemus-Up to one inch diameter hail was reported near Remus.
May 2022HailRemus-Hail up to quarter sized covered portions of M-66.
July 2012HailRemus-Law enforcement reported that a severe thunderstorm produced hail that was measured to be up to 2 and three quarters inches in diameter in Remus.
April 1994HailRemus-Spotters in Remus reported hail along with strong winds gusts. Several trees were blown down in a rural area south of Rodney.
May 2025HailRemus-no account filed
May 2025HailRemus-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodRemus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mecosta 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
Millbrook4.6 miles11
Mecosta4.6 miles12
Titus5.3 miles12
Halls Corner5.8 miles12
Sylvester7.0 miles14
Canadian Lakes8.4 miles14
Altona9.8 miles14
Chippewa Vista10.1 miles12

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 Q118213275The 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 635795. 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.