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Saint Helen, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Richfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48656. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helen quadrangle. 2,735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Saint Helen within Roscommon County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Helen grew from 2,668 to 2,735 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
20102,668
20202,735+67 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Saint Helen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,049 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 10
12 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2002Natural13 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 02 - MOORE RD
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000050 - 2020
6 July 2007Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon 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
Au Sable River Park3.8 miles10
Artesia Beach4.3 miles10
Geels5.6 miles10
Maple Valley5.9 miles10
Keno7.5 miles10
Roscommon13.4 miles10
Prudenville13.6 miles10
Sharps Corners15.0 miles11

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 Saint HelenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2028303The 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 636665. 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.