BlockSherman City, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Coldwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48632. It stands on Sherman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherman City quadrangle.
On record in Sherman City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Sherman City Union Churchlisted 2004
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Sherman City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sherman City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000254 - 2019 |
| 16 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000193 - 2018 |
| 13 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000225 - 2019 |
| 21 June 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ISABELLA 01 |
| 9 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherman City in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Sherman City | $25,000 | A very brief F0 tornado touched down, and blew an occupied mobile home off it's blocks. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horr | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Brinton | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Drew | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Weidman | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Lake Isabella | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Broomfield Center | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Two Rivers | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| Beal City | 9.8 miles | 15 |
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 Q122589670 | 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 637758. 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.