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Elkton, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oliver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48731. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle. 796 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Elkton within Huron County

Population over time

2 figures

Elkton fell from 808 to 796 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
2010808
2020796-12 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Elkton between 2003 and 2019, burning about 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
10 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAD AXE AREA FD 2019084 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAD AXE AREA FD 2019041 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019031 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019030 - 2019
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019033 - 2019
14 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minor4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019027 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elkton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Asbestos. 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
Pigeon PlantAsbestosProducer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkton in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindElkton-A barn collapsed from the wind.
May 2010Flash FloodElkton-One to two feet of water covering numerous intersections in Bad Axe due to heavy rain. Three to six inches of rain was estimated to have fallen.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindElkton-A few large tree limbs were blown down.
September 2007HailElkton-A trained spotter reported hailstones of dime to penny size.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindElkton-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindElkton-A trained spotter reported 5 inch diameter tree limbs down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindElkton-Numerous trees were either blown down or snapped clean off their bases. Six farm buildings were either damaged or destroyed. Power lines were downed, along with overturned outbuildings.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindElkton-A trained spotter reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindElkton-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a barn in the community of Elkton, according to Huron county sheriff.
April 2011HailElkton-no account filed
April 2004HailElkton-no account filed
June 2004HailElkton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Pigeon4.8 miles8
Berne5.0 miles8
Popple5.6 miles8
Linkville6.2 miles8
Owendale7.8 miles8
Pinnebog9.0 miles8
Ivanhoe9.1 miles8
Bad Axe9.6 miles8

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 ElktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q940632The 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 625466. 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.