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Clifford, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Burlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48727. The Survey maps it on the Clifford quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Clifford within Lapeer County

Population over time

2 figures

Clifford fell from 324 to 300 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
2010324
2020300-24 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clifford between 2005 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
3 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000043 - 2019
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARLETTE FD 0031045 - 2019
5 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARLETTE FD 0017025 - 2018
27 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000023 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifford in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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 2019Thunderstorm WindClifford-Multiple large tree limbs down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindClifford-The emergency manager reported large tree limbs blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindClifford-Large trees were reported blown down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Clifford-The general public reported a brief tornado touchdown.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Clifford-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindClifford-no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodClifford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
North Branch6.0 miles10
Burnside9.0 miles10
Barnes Lake11.2 miles10
Kings Mill11.9 miles10
Millers Lake12.1 miles10
Five Lakes12.2 miles10
Lum14.9 miles10
Otter Lake16.2 miles10

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 CliffordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2322591The 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 623463. 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.