Custer, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Custer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49405. It stands on Hatting Creek. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCuster fell from 284 to 272 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 | 284 | |
| 2020 | 272 | -12 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1931 USGS Custer NW quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Custer quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Custer NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Custer quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Custer between 1997 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | SUNDAY |
| 3 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WHELAN WALKER |
| 4 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0199 - 2020 |
| 7 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CUSTER |
| 6 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WELDON CREEK |
| 18 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 19-0191 - 2019 |
| 8 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0144 - 2020 |
| 11 June 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | SWAMP FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Custer in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Custer | $15,000 | Mason county officials reported that several trees were blown down across portions of Mason county. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Custer | - | A trained spotter reported up to one inch diameter hail in South Branch. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Custer | - | A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Custer. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Custer | - | A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Custer. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottville | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Sugar Grove | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Amber | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Walhalla | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Batcheller | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Tallman | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Fountain | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wiley | 7.0 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 Custer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2081194 | 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 1619649. 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.






