Blissfield, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blissfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49228. The Survey maps it on the Blissfield quadrangle. 3,277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
On record in Blissfield
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
Blissfield Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2015
David Carpenter Houselisted 1979
First Presbyterian Church of Blissfieldlisted 1971
Population over time
2 figuresBlissfield fell from 3,340 to 3,277 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 | 3,340 | |
| 2020 | 3,277 | -63 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1939 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blissfield in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 220 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blissfield: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atkin's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Bliss's Coal Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Rupp's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Saxton and Son Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blissfield in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Blissfield | $50,000 | Two witnesses confirmed sighting of tornado touchdown, preceded by a brief hail storm, that destroyed a 75 x 100 foot cattle barn, a 30 x 70 foot pig barn, and an antique windmill. Another 50 x 70 foot barn was damaged, and a fallen tree damaged the wall of a home. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blissfield | $5,000 | Numerous trees and wires reported down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blissfield | $5,000 | Hail damaged fruit and vegetable crops in Palmyra Township. Winds blew down a large tree in Blissfield that crushed a garage. Thunderstorm winds toppled trees and power lines across the county. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blissfield | - | Numerous large tree limbs reported down. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Blissfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Blissfield | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Blissfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Blissfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riga | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Wellsville | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Palmyra | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Lenawee Junction | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Deerfield | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Mulberry | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Ogden | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Ogden Center | 6.6 miles | 11 |
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 Blissfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316562 | 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 621593. 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.





