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.
Population over time
2 figuresAllen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 201 | +10 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Allen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2020-54 - 2020 |
| 6 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | QUINCY FD 46 - 2019 |
| 20 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2018-20 - 2018 |
| 14 April 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2018-18 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Several large trees down across the road. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Power poles and lines down. Trees down. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Several power lines and trees down in Allen Township. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Trees down on power lines west of Hillsdale. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto US-12 in Allen. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down in the town of Allen along US 12. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree fell onto a car near State Route 49 and West Bacon Road. No injuries were reported. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Allen | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail at the corner of Jonesville and Squires Road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Emergency management officials reported trees down along State Route 49. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | A 16 inch diameter tree was blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Allen. |
| September 1997 | Flash Flood | Allen | - | The Hillsdale County Sheriff's Department reported several rural roads in Allen Township were washed out. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Allen | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bankers | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Jonesville | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Litchfield | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hillsdale | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Reading | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Mosherville | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Steamburg | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Cambria | 10.8 miles | 10 |
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 Allen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316545 | The 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.




