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Carleton, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ash Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48117. It stands on Streit Drain. The Survey maps it on the Carleton quadrangle. 2,326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Carleton within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Carleton fell from 2,345 to 2,326 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
20102,345
20202,326-19 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Carleton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 27 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Natural1

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
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191239 - 2019
1 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18930 - 2018
21 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18889 - 2018
3 July 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 442 - 2020
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEXETER VFD 0000139 - 2018
14 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASH TOWNSHIP FD 0006134 - 2019
8 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEXETER VFD 0000098 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18291 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carleton: 1 producer. 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
Deer Lake Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carleton in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014Flash FloodCarleton$50,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCarleton-A tree and several large tree limbs observed down in Carleton, along with power lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Reports of downed trees and power lines.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Numerous trees and wires reported down across northeast portions of Monroe County.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Numerous trees and wires reported down across northeast portions of Monroe County.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Numerous trees blown down throughout Monroe County, most around Carleton.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindCarleton-A large tree was reported blown down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Multiple trees reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Large tree limb reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Law enforcement reported a tree down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Trained spotter reported 20 inch diameter trees blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCarleton-Local law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCarleton-A trained weather spotter reported several trees down.
July 2023HailCarleton-no account filed
October 2018HailCarleton-no account filed
May 2004HailCarleton-no account filed
July 2003HailCarleton-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindCarleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Grafton1.6 miles17
Steiner4.9 miles17
Scofield5.5 miles17
Exeter (historical)5.8 miles17
Newport5.9 miles16
South Rockwood6.9 miles16
Oldport7.1 miles18
Stony Creek7.2 miles18

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 CarletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3157290The 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 622719. 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.