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Attica, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Attica Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48412. The Survey maps it on the Attica quadrangle. 962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Attica within Lapeer County

Population over time

2 figures

Attica fell from 994 to 962 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
2010994
2020962-32 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Attica between 2004 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
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
5 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000051 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATTICA TOWNSHIP FD 0000023 - 2018
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000041 - 2018
24 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATTICA TOWNSHIP FD 0000019 - 2018
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2018
19 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000040 - 2020
4 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000122 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Attica: 7 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Attica Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baritt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lapeer County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vannini PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Attica in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindAttica1 killedA tree fell onto a Dodge Ram truck traveling on the road. The tree went through the trucks windshield and entered the passenger compartment, killing a 36 year old woman passenger.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAttica$75,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAttica$10,000Trees blown down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAttica$8,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAttica$1,000Central Dispatch reported that several trees and powerlines were blown down in Attica by thunderstorm winds.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAttica-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAttica-Trees and wires were reported down, mostly in Attica Township.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAttica-Tree blown down onto a power pole.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAttica-Multiple large trees downed and uprooted.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAttica-Large tree limbs blown down blocking road.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAttica-A tree was blown down and blocked the intersection of Newark and Lake Pleasant Roads. Multiple trees were also down elsewhere.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindAttica-A large tree was blown down on Lake Pleasant Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAttica-Law enforcement reported a tree down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAttica-Several large tree branches were blown down.
April 2020HailAttica-no account filed
May 2011FloodAttica-no account filed
July 2011HailAttica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Imlay City4.7 miles10
Lum4.8 miles10
Dryden6.2 miles11
Goodland6.7 miles10
Thornville6.8 miles11
Hunters Creek7.4 miles12
Kings Mill7.7 miles10
Lapeer8.2 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 AtticaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17144043The 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 620309. 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.