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Chesaning, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chesaning Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48616. The Survey maps it on the Chesaning East quadrangle. 2,430 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Chesaning within Saginaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Chesaning grew from 2,394 to 2,430 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
20102,394
20202,430+36 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Chesaning between 2018 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 121 - 2019
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 88 - 2020
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 81 - 2019
7 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 75 - 2020
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2020
26 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2020
27 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2018
23 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 55 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw 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 Chesaning: 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
Fred Fitzgerald Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesaning in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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
July 1997Tornado (F1)Chesaning$400,000no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F1)Chesaning$400,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindChesaning$25,000Trees and power lines reported down across southwest Saginaw county.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindChesaning$20,000Multiple trees blown down. Barn Destroyed, along with power poles downed.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindChesaning$10,000Multiple trees down on roads, causing road closures.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChesaning$3,000no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindChesaning$2,000Large tree limbs and power lines reported down.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Chesaning-Reports from local media, emergency management, |and fire officials. Damage started near the intersection of Ditch|and Gasper Roads with a couple of barns damaged, a garage blown off |of the foundation and another garage with a door and wall blown out. |Also in this area were a few trees uprooted and large limbs snapped. |Similar damage was reported along Ferdon Road between Briggs and |Lincoln Roads including two additional barns with roof damage, a|garage with a blown out door and wall, and numerous uprooted trees|and snapped large limbs. Estimated peak winds of 80 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Tree limb fell onto a power line.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Several 6-8 inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Trees and power lines reported down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindChesaning-A spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Three inch diameter tree branches reported down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindChesaning-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindChesaning-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Saginaw County Central Dispatch reported several large trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Large trees blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindChesaning-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down telephone wires.
September 2021HailChesaning-no account filed
July 2014HailChesaning-no account filed
June 2004HailChesaning-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChesaning-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChesaning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Parshallburg2.9 miles15
Groveton4.1 miles15
Oakley4.2 miles15
Luce5.7 miles15
Brady Center6.0 miles15
Layton Corners6.7 miles14
Alicia7.4 miles15
Saint Charles7.9 miles15

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 ChesaningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2962827The 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 623168. 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.