Carney, Michigan
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Nadeau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49812. The Survey maps it on the Nadeau quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarney fell from 192 to 179 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 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 179 | -13 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Powers quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Nadeau quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Carney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JAYONE |
| 20 May 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NADEAU TOWNSHIP FD 0200520 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carney in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | $7,000 | Delayed Facebook report of large trees uprooted, a pole barn blown off its foundation and a garage door blown in. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | $4,000 | Facebook report from Carney with pictures of two different trees down on private property and a garage door blown in. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | $4,000 | Trees reported down across roads and over power lines. County Road 38 was closed. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | $1,000 | Three to four-inch diameter branches were reported down. A tree also fell on power lines, and a metal lawn chair was blown across the yard. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | $1,000 | Three-foot diameter tree downed in yard on County Road G18. Time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Carney | - | There was a Facebook report of one inch diameter hail in Carney. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Carney | - | A spotter in Carney measured four inches of rain in approximately 12 hours. Two inches of the rain fell in two hours during the late morning of the 4th. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Carney | - | Hail lasted for one to two minutes. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | - | Three-inch diameter tree limb snapped off and lying on County Road 374 just east of County Road 557 intersection. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | - | Estimated 50-60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Carney | - | Three-quarter inch diameter hail was reported. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carney | - | One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken off. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Carney | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Carney | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Carney | - | 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.
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 Carney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2558382 | 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 622743. 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.





