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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.

Clayton within Lenawee County

Population over time

2 figures

Clayton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010344
2020311-33 (-10%)

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

11 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
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
14 August 1996Debris and open burning2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000836 - 2019
8 April 2019Debris and open burning40 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000085 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000075 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMichigan Wetland Management DistrictMIMWR-FY19-WF-SCHOONOVER WPA
5 April 2019Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000078 - 2019
5 April 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000077 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000075 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996HailClayton1 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindClayton$25,000A 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 2006LightningClayton$10,000Lightning 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 2006LightningClayton$10,000Lightning 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 2021Thunderstorm WindClayton-Trees reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindClayton-Law enforcement reported a large tree down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindClayton-Three trees were reported blown down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindClayton-Several trees ranging in diameter from two to 3.5 feet were blown down.
June 2021HailClayton-no account filed
June 2014HailClayton-no account filed
May 2007HailClayton-no account filed
April 1996HailClayton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Medina4.1 miles11
Cadmus4.1 miles11
Canandaigua4.5 miles11
Rollin5.7 miles9
Rome Center6.1 miles9
Seneca6.1 miles11
Hudson6.3 miles11
North Morenci6.9 miles11

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 ClaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316456The 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.