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Allen, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Allen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49227. The Survey maps it on the Allen quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

Allen within Hillsdale County

Population over time

2 figures

Allen grew from 191 to 201 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
2010191
2020201+10 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Allen between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-54 - 2020
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesQUINCY FD 46 - 2019
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2018-20 - 2018
14 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2018-18 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindAllen-Several large trees down across the road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindAllen-Power poles and lines down. Trees down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindAllen-Several power lines and trees down in Allen Township.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindAllen-Trees down on power lines west of Hillsdale.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto US-12 in Allen.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAllen-Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down in the town of Allen along US 12.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAllen-Emergency management officials reported a tree fell onto a car near State Route 49 and West Bacon Road. No injuries were reported.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindAllen-Amateur radio operators reported a tree down at Squires and Genesee Road. A portion of a sheet metal roof was taken off a barn at Squires and Jonesville Road.
September 2011HailAllen-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail at the corner of Jonesville and Squires Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAllen-Emergency management officials reported trees down along State Route 49.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAllen-A 16 inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllen-Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Allen.
September 1997Flash FloodAllen-The Hillsdale County Sheriff's Department reported several rural roads in Allen Township were washed out.
July 2003HailAllen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Bankers5.7 miles10
Jonesville5.9 miles10
Litchfield6.0 miles11
Hillsdale7.7 miles10
Reading8.2 miles10
Mosherville9.2 miles11
Steamburg10.0 miles11
Cambria10.8 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 AllenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316545The 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 619966. 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.