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Capac, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mussey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48014. The Survey maps it on the Capac quadrangle. 1,983 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Capac within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Capac grew from 1,890 to 1,983 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
20101,890
20201,983+93 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Capac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use33 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000117 - 2019
15 June 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1992Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000099 - 2018
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSSEY TOWNSHIP FD 2180069 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSSEY TOWNSHIP FD 2180053 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capac in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 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
April 2013FloodCapac$250,000no account filed
June 2009FloodCapac$100,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCapac$25,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCapac$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCapac$3,000A local newspaper article included a picture of a trampoline, that had been anchored into the ground, wrapped around the corner of a home's roof, reportedly shifting the wall by a couple of inches. Trees were also reported blown down. An early morning 4th of July thunderstorm was responsible for the damage. Downburst winds were estimated at around 60 MPH. Gushing rain and pelting hail also left plants ripped to shreds. Property damage was estimated at roughly $3K.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCapac$1,000Large tree reported down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCapac-Tree reported to have fallen on a house.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCapac-Power lines were reported down.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindCapac-A tree was reported blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCapac-A trained spotter reported a tree branch 8 inches in diameter down.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCapac-Trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCapac-A trained spotter reported 5 inch tree limbs down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindCapac-A trained spotter estimated 60 MPH thunderstorm winds.
January 2020FloodCapac-no account filed
July 2010HailCapac-no account filed
July 2008HailCapac-no account filed
September 2006HailCapac-no account filed
July 2003HailCapac-no account filed
July 2001HailCapac-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCapac-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCapac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Lesterville4.0 miles13
Allenton6.5 miles13
Riley Center6.7 miles13
Berville7.6 miles13
Emmett8.8 miles13
Brockway9.6 miles10
Yale10.6 miles9
Merrillsville (historical)11.2 miles9

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 CapacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2139151The 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 1624440. 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.