Wetmore, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49895. The Survey maps it on the Indian Town quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Munising quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Indian Town quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wetmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | PK |
| 16 July 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | LOST LAKE |
| 10 May 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 1992 | Smoking | 13 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | not named |
| 20 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCRAPPER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wetmore: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw and Lobb Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wetmore in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wetmore | $2,000 | An eight to ten inch diameter tree was knocked down at a hotel, and a tree of unknown size was down across Highway M-28. Power was also knocked out in the area. Hail was reported hitting a truck, but the size of hail was unknown due to poor visibility. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Wetmore | - | Pea to nickel-sized hail covered the ground up to an inch deep. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wetmore | - | A 6 inch diameter tree was snapped off. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wetmore | - | 1 3/4 inch hail. |
| July 1996 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juniper | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Munising | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Town | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Evelyn | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Doty | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Munising Junction | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Williams Landing | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Christmas | 5.8 miles | 11 |
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 Q136353119 | 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 1622121. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






