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Durand, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Durand City. It lies in ZIP code area 48429. It stands on Threemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Durand quadrangle. 3,507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Durand within Shiawassee County

On record in Durand

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Durand grew from 3,446 to 3,507 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
20103,446
20203,507+61 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Durand between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
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
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2019
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000054 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDURAND FD 0200015 - 2019
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018
19 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000169 - 2018
30 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000042 - 2019
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2019
4 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000013 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Durand: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fred Mccann Clay PitClayPast Producer
Blinja & Hammond Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lennon Sand and Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durand in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2007HailDurand$2,800,000Large hail hammered areas in a 3 mile radius around Durand for 50 minutes. The hail, at times, was as big as golf balls. A local newspaper reported $1.8M in hail damages to homes alone. Hundreds of vehicles also took a beating. Local experts estimated damages at an average of $4K per vehicle. This information was used to estimate $1M in total damages to vehicles. Many crops in the area were also destroyed. One farmer estimated $400K in losses to soybeans alone. Total crop damages were estimated at a conservative $2M, bringing the total cost of this hailstorm to nearly $5M.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Durand$10,000Media reports indicated damage to a barn and a few trees near Prior and Byron Roads in Vernon Township in eastern Shiawassee County. It was determined the damage resulted from a weak EF-0 tornado with maximum winds estimated at 65 mph. The tornado was on the ground for a minute or less as it traveled eastward.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDurand$6,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDurand-Large pine tree uprooted and down on a garage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDurand-South side of a home sustained damage to siding and a blown out window.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDurand-Barn roof peeled up and nearby small greenhouse sustained damage.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDurand-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindDurand-An 18 inch diameter pine tree was reported blown down.
July 1999HailDurand-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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
Vernon3.0 miles13
Newburg4.5 miles13
Bancroft4.8 miles13
Shiawasseetown5.2 miles13
Lennon5.8 miles13
Union Plains5.9 miles13
Byron6.5 miles14
Kerby7.5 miles13

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 DurandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2172232The 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 625016. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.