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South Boardman, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boardman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49680. It stands on Shannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Boardman quadrangle. 509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

South Boardman within Kalkaska County

Population over time

2 figures

South Boardman fell from 536 to 509 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
2010536
2020509-27 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of South Boardman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 131 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBOARDMAN TOWNSHIP FD 0020952 - 2019
21 September 2014Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 0002
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 07
10 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Boardman in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2024HailSouth Boardman-Report of dime sized hail from mping.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSouth Boardman-A few trees down.
July 1994Tornado (F0)South Boardman-A fire department spotter observed a tornado as it touched down in an open field. No damage was reported. Several other funnel clouds were sighted across western and southern portions of the county between 1700 EST and 1900 EST.
June 2000HailSouth Boardman-no account filed
July 1996HailSouth Boardman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalkaska 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
Houseman2.5 miles13
Crofton3.2 miles15
Deibert4.7 miles14
Lodi5.5 miles15
Giddings5.9 miles14
McGee6.1 miles14
Millers Corners7.7 miles14
Kalkaska8.4 miles15

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 South BoardmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27340078The 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 638270. 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.