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Caro, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Caro City. It lies in ZIP code area 48723. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caro quadrangle. 4,328 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

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Caro within Tuscola County

On record in Caro

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Caro grew from 4,229 to 4,328 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
20104,229
20204,328+99 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Caro between 1996 and 2019, burning about 10 acres 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/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000153 - 2018
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000134 - 2018
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018
19 May 1996Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000068 - 2018
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000074 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 Caro: 4 producers. 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
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caro in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 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
July 1994HailCaro$500,000A severe thunderstorm moved southeast across Tuscola County on the 6th, dropping large hail over the communities of Fairgrove and Caro. In Caro, a car dealership suffered damages in excess of $100,000 to their stock of both used and new cars.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCaro$100,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaro$30,000Numerous trees reported down.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindCaro$15,000no account filed
March 2006FloodCaro$10,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCaro$8,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCaro$5,000Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaro$5,000Numerous tree limbs and trees reported down, along with damaged windows.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCaro$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCaro$2,000Numerous large limbs were downed.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCaro$2,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCaro-Tree blown down onto a mobile home.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCaro-Trees reported down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCaro-Large tree and wires reported down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindCaro-Numerous trees and power lines reported down across the county.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCaro-Trees reported down.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindCaro-Six trees were reported blown down, along with wires.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCaro-Trees reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaro-Four inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCaro-Law enforcement reported a tree blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCaro-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCaro-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCaro-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCaro-Several large tree limbs and wires were reported down by the emergency manager.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCaro-Emergency management reported large trees blown down in thunderstorm winds.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCaro-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines on the northeast side of Caro. In Reese, several large limbs were snapped off of trees.
March 2012HailCaro-no account filed
July 2008HailCaro-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaro-no account filed
May 2005HailCaro-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCaro-no account filed
May 2004HailCaro-no account filed
June 2002HailCaro-no account filed
October 2002HailCaro-no account filed
July 2000HailCaro-no account filed
May 1998HailCaro-no account filed
April 1998HailCaro-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCaro-no account filed
May 1997HailCaro-no account filed
May 1997HailCaro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Wahjamega3.3 miles11
Ellington5.9 miles8
Daytona Branch6.0 miles9
Dayton6.1 miles9
Watrousville7.2 miles10
Fairgrove8.1 miles9
East Dayton8.1 miles9
Akron8.2 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 CaroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14032The 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 622746. 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.