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.
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
Durand High Schoollisted 2009
Grand Trunk Railway Stationlisted 1971
Williams-Cole Houselisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresDurand 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,446 | |
| 2020 | 3,507 | +61 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1922 USGS Durand quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Durand quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Durand quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2018Regional 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 use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2019 |
| 13 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000054 - 2019 |
| 10 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DURAND FD 0200015 - 2019 |
| 5 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000169 - 2018 |
| 30 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000042 - 2019 |
| 9 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GAINES TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2019 |
| 4 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000013 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Mccann Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Blinja & Hammond Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lennon Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Hail | Durand | $2,800,000 | Large 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 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Durand | $10,000 | Media 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | $6,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | - | Large pine tree uprooted and down on a garage. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | - | South side of a home sustained damage to siding and a blown out window. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | - | Barn roof peeled up and nearby small greenhouse sustained damage. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | - | Multiple trees and power lines reported down. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durand | - | An 18 inch diameter pine tree was reported blown down. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Durand | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Newburg | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bancroft | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Shiawasseetown | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lennon | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Union Plains | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Byron | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Kerby | 7.5 miles | 13 |
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 Durand | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2172232 | 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 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.






