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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.

Custer within Mason County

Population over time

2 figures

Custer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010284
2020272-12 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

18 since 1997

Regional 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 use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSUNDAY
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWHELAN WALKER
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 20-0199 - 2020
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCUSTER
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWELDON CREEK
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 19-0191 - 2019
8 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 20-0144 - 2020
11 June 2005Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSWAMP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCuster$15,000Mason county officials reported that several trees were blown down across portions of Mason county.
May 2012HailCuster-A trained spotter reported up to one inch diameter hail in South Branch.
June 2008HailCuster-A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Custer.
June 2008HailCuster-A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Custer.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Scottville3.2 miles10
Sugar Grove4.8 miles9
Amber5.3 miles10
Walhalla5.6 miles11
Batcheller5.9 miles9
Tallman6.1 miles11
Fountain6.9 miles9
Wiley7.0 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 CusterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2081194The 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.