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Carson City, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carson City City. It lies in ZIP code area 48811. It stands on Butternut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carson City quadrangle. 1,120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Carson City within Montcalm County

Population over time

2 figures

Carson City grew from 1,093 to 1,120 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
20101,093
20201,120+27 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Carson City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
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
15 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201843 - 2018
26 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0060-19 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201916 - 2019
3 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 202013 - 2020
27 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201922 - 2019
25 April 2019Natural25 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201920 - 2019
22 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0048-19 - 2019
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBARDSTON FD 0000033 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montcalm 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 Carson City: 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
Montcalm County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montcalm County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson City in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCarson City$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down by wind gusts estimated at 58 mph.
July 2006HailCarson City$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported in Carson City.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindCarson City$10,000Numerous large trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts two miles north of Carson City.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCarson City-Barn roof partially removed.

Every storm recorded in Montcalm 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
Butternut3.7 miles11
Vickeryville6.4 miles11
Crystal7.0 miles10
Sheridan12.3 miles10
Fenwick12.5 miles10
Kings Corner13.0 miles10
Amsden14.7 miles10
Stanton14.8 miles13

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 Carson CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1045455The 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 622795. 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.