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Whittemore, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Whittemore City. It lies in ZIP code area 48770. It stands on Hall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whittemore quadrangle. 414 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Whittemore within Iosco County

Population over time

2 figures

Whittemore grew from 384 to 414 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
2010384
2020414+30 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Whittemore between 1993 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRANGER
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSCHALT
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestWHITE ROCK
8 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPOWERLINE
5 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNATIONAL
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITTEMORE VFD 0000029 - 2019
15 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRANGER
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITTEMORE VFD 0000021 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whittemore: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Michigan Gypsum Pit & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1960
Michigan Gypsum Pit and MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
National City QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1925

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whittemore in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWhittemore$6,000Trees were downed by damaging winds.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindWhittemore$6,000Multiple trees were downed.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWhittemore$4,000Trees and power lines were downed in far southern Iosco County.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWhittemore$2,000Iosco county dispatch reports trees down near Whittemore.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindWhittemore$3A spotter reported several large trees uprooted due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWhittemore-Report of a camper blown over near Whittemore.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWhittemore-Thunderstorm downed a few trees near the intersection of M-55 and M-65.
June 2008HailWhittemore-no account filed
July 2002HailWhittemore-no account filed
May 2000HailWhittemore-no account filed
May 2000HailWhittemore-no account filed
May 2000HailWhittemore-no account filed
July 1997HailWhittemore-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWhittemore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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
National City4.2 miles11
Turtle4.4 miles11
Hemlock6.1 miles14
McIvor6.4 miles11
White Rock6.4 miles14
Sand Lake8.6 miles14
Meadow8.7 miles14
Hale9.9 miles12

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 WhittemoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1955407The 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 1616402. 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.