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Albion, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Albion City. It lies in ZIP code area 49224. It stands on South Branch Kalamazoo River. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Albion quadrangle. 7,700 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Albion within Calhoun County

On record in Albion

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Albion fell from 8,616 to 7,700 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
20108,616
20207,700-916 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Albion between 2018 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Debris and open burning1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 504 - 2020
2 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000069 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCONCORD FD 2019147 - 2019
3 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018076 - 2018
27 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000066 - 2019
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018085 - 2018
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018074 - 2018
5 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 0000295 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Albion: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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
Cole Bros Contractors, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tekonsha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindAlbion$500,000A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts of up to 70 to 80 mph that brought down numerous trees and power lines in and near Albion, resulting in numerous power outages and a closure of Albion college for several days due to all the wind damage and loss of power.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAlbion$100,000Numerous large trees were blown down in Albion. Trees and power lines were also blown down throughout city of Battle Creek.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAlbion$15,000Calhoun county central dispatch reported that several trees were blown down, mainly around Albion.
July 2004HailAlbion$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported one mile north of Albion, and several trees were blown down just east of Marshall and two miles north of Albion.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Three trees were blown down onto L Drive North in Albion.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindAlbion$5,000A thunderstorm wind gust of over 70 mph was recorded by the Sheridan Township Fire Department. Scattered limbs and a few pine trees were blown down around the city of Albion.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindAlbion$5,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAlbion$2,000A trained spotter reported a downed tree and several downed power lines near Albion.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAlbion$1,000A tree was downed just north of Albion.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees uprooted with multiple utility poles downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Wind damage was reported near the intersection of Erie and Hannah streets, where one tree fell onto an Amtrak train resulting in damage to the brakes.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAlbion-The Albion Recorder reported downed trees and power lines in the city of Albion. One tree fell in front of the Masonic Temple at Center and Clinton Streets. The tree fell on a power line which sparked a small fire on the utility pole. Damage estimates were not available.
September 1994HailAlbion-Hail covered ground to a depth of 0.25 inch.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Winds gusted to near 70 mph as the thunderstorms moved through Albion.
June 1994HailAlbion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Babcock3.1 miles12
Condit4.2 miles12
Marengo5.4 miles15
Eckford6.6 miles12
Homer7.3 miles12
Rice Creek7.5 miles15
Clarence Center9.6 miles15
Albion Landing9.7 miles15

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 AlbionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2327553The 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 619906. 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.