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Wolverine, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nunda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49799. It stands on West Branch Sturgeon River. The Survey maps it on the Wolverine quadrangle. 309 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Wolverine within Cheboygan County

Population over time

2 figures

Wolverine grew from 244 to 309 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
2010244
2020309+65 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Wolverine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
25 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000140 - 2019
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000139 - 2019
16 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 12
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 09 - MILE MARKER 297

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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 Wolverine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rondo Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cheboygan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolverine in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003LightningWolverine$75,000Lightning started a fire which destroyed a home.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWolverine$24,000Trees were downed across multiple roads northeast of Wolverine and southeast of Indian River. Trees and power lines were also downed in Afton.
September 2014Tornado (EF0)Wolverine$20,000A brief EF-0 tornado occurred in southern Cheboygan County. A number of trees were uprooted or snapped off. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWolverine$5,000Multiple trees were downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWolverine$500Several large tree limbs were downed.
May 2005HailWolverine-A number of thunderstorms in northern Michigan produced hail on the 28th. Only one produced severe-criteria hail, with dime-sized hailstones reported near Wolverine. Some storms were prolific hail producers, even it they weren't severe. Pea sized hail accumulated one to two inches deep near Posen, and two to three inches deep along US-131 northeast of Alba.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWolverine-A few trees were uprooted.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWolverine-Several 8-10 inch diameter trees down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWolverine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheboygan 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
Haakwood2.2 miles12
Haakwood (historical)2.2 miles12
Rondo3.2 miles12
Trowbridge3.2 miles12
Wildwood8.4 miles12
Pittsburg Landing8.9 miles12
Afton9.0 miles13
Kingsley Beach9.1 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 WolverineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2345681The 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 1616712. 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.