Clayton, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49235. It stands on Bird Drain. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClayton fell from 344 to 311 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 | 344 | |
| 2020 | 311 | -33 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Clayton between 1996 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ADDISON FD 0000836 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000085 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORENCI FD 0000075 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Michigan Wetland Management District | MIMWR-FY19-WF-SCHOONOVER WPA |
| 5 April 2019 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000078 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000077 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000075 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Clayton | 1 hurt, $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clayton | $25,000 | A local newspaper included a picture of a collapsed section of the rear wall of a 125 year old two-story brick building located at Clayton Crossing. The damage to the building was roughly estimated at $40K. The fire chief said the building was a safety hazard and would need to be demolished. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | Clayton | $10,000 | Lightning struck a home on South Street in Clayton. No injuries were reported. The details of the damages are unknown and the value assigned is a rough estimate. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | Clayton | $10,000 | Lightning struck a home on M-34 near Posey Lake. No injuries were reported. The details of the damages are unknown and the value assigned is a rough estimate. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clayton | - | Trees reported down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clayton | - | Law enforcement reported a large tree down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clayton | - | Three trees were reported blown down. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clayton | - | Several trees ranging in diameter from two to 3.5 feet were blown down. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Clayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Clayton | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Clayton | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Clayton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medina | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cadmus | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Canandaigua | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rollin | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Rome Center | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Seneca | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hudson | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| North Morenci | 6.9 miles | 11 |
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 Clayton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316456 | 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 623395. 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.




