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.
Population over time
2 figuresClifford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 324 | |
| 2020 | 300 | -24 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Clifford quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAYVILLE FD 0000043 - 2019 |
| 10 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARLETTE FD 0031045 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARLETTE FD 0017025 - 2018 |
| 27 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAYVILLE FD 0000023 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clifford | - | Multiple large tree limbs down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clifford | - | The emergency manager reported large tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clifford | - | Large trees were reported blown down. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Clifford | - | The general public reported a brief tornado touchdown. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Clifford | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clifford | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Clifford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Branch | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Burnside | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Barnes Lake | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Kings Mill | 11.9 miles | 10 | |
| Millers Lake | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Five Lakes | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Lum | 14.9 miles | 10 | |
| Otter Lake | 16.2 miles | 10 |
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 Clifford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2322591 | 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 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.




