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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.

Blissfield within Lenawee County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Blissfield 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,340
20203,277-63 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2020

Regional 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/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
9 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 220 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atkin's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Bliss's Coal PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Rupp's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Saxton and Son Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Tornado (F0)Blissfield$50,000Two 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 2011Thunderstorm WindBlissfield$5,000Numerous trees and wires reported down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBlissfield$5,000Hail 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBlissfield-Numerous large tree limbs reported down.
June 2019HailBlissfield-no account filed
April 2006HailBlissfield-no account filed
August 1997HailBlissfield-no account filed
July 1996HailBlissfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Riga2.6 miles11
Wellsville3.8 miles11
Palmyra4.3 miles11
Lenawee Junction5.6 miles11
Deerfield5.9 miles12
Mulberry6.2 miles12
Ogden6.3 miles11
Ogden Center6.6 miles11

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 BlissfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316562The 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.