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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.

Wetmore within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPK
16 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 1998Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestLOST LAKE
10 May 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Smoking13 acresHiawatha National Forestnot named
20 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCRAPPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shaw and Lobb Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alger County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWetmore$2,000An 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 2009HailWetmore-Pea to nickel-sized hail covered the ground up to an inch deep.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWetmore-A 6 inch diameter tree was snapped off.
May 2001HailWetmore-1 3/4 inch hail.
July 1996HailWetmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alger 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
Juniper2.2 miles12
Munising2.6 miles11
Indian Town3.6 miles12
Evelyn4.6 miles12
Doty4.7 miles12
Munising Junction4.8 miles11
Williams Landing5.6 miles11
Christmas5.8 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.

Wikidata item Q136353119The 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.