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Akron, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Akron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48701. The Survey maps it on the Fairgrove quadrangle. 349 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Akron within Tuscola County

Population over time

2 figures

Akron fell from 402 to 349 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
2010402
2020349-53 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Akron between 2009 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAKRON FD 7901025 - 2020
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018
4 May 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestTURKEY
28 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001919 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001219 - 2019
22 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREESE FIRE RESCUE 29 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akron in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2006LightningAkron$100,000A newspaper reported that a lightning strike had caused a house to burn down. Lightning struck the home on Saturday evening, the 26th, sparking electrical problems. The electrical problem caused the home to go up in flames 24 hours later, at 1830 EST on the 27th. Total property damages were estimated at $100K.
November 2003Tornado (F1)Akron$100,000A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed a tornado touched down near the intersection of Kirk and Akron Roads. Grain bins along Kirk and Cass City roads were destroyed. A barn near Ringle and Dickerson roads was also damaged just before the tornado lifted. In addition, a trailer house was a moved over eight feet and a shed was damaged. The tornado also brought down tree limbs and power lines.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindAkron$35,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAkron$6,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAkron$3,000Power lines down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindAkron$500Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped about the top 12 feet of five pine trees at a residence, caused minor shingle damage to the roof of the home, and knocked down the television antenna on the roof.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAkron-Over a dozen trees reported blown down or snapped across northern Tuscola county.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindAkron-Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAkron-Thunderstorm wind gusts broke off seven utlitily poles near the intersection of Cook and Dickerson Roads.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAkron-A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAkron-A new playground set was blown around.
June 2002HailAkron-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAkron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Fairgrove3.4 miles9
Wisner5.0 miles9
Bradleyville5.9 miles9
Colling6.3 miles9
Unionville6.4 miles9
Oakhurst6.9 miles10
Bay Park7.2 miles10
Gilford7.7 miles10

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 AkronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2829150The 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 619882. 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.