BlockSherman, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Antioch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49668. It stands on Burkett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mesick quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Mesick quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Mesick quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sherman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEXFORD 06 |
| 16 September 2018 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEXFORD 08 |
| 5 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEXFORD 07 |
| 19 June 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SPRINGVILLE TOWNSHIP FD ST18032 - 2018 |
| 9 May 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherman in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherman | $30,000 | A number of trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. Four vehicles were destroyed or damaged by falling trees. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Sherman | - | Photo from social media of hail up to ping-pong ball size in Mesick. Additional reports from the Mesick area of accumulating hail mixed with large hailstones. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherman | - | Central dispatch reported significant power outages in the vicinity of Mesick. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherman | - | Several trees down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherman | - | Numerous trees down. |
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 Sherman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14716278 | 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 1621586. 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.