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Elsie, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Duplain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48831. It stands on Wise Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ovid West quadrangle. 930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Elsie within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Elsie fell from 966 to 930 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
2010966
2020930-36 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Elsie between 2019 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 1900050 - 2019
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 2000043 - 2020
28 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 1900025 - 2019
24 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLEY VFD 0019040 - 2019
23 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 1900024 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Elsie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Martin Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elsie in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 1998: 4 hail, 3 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindElsie$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailElsie-Golf ball- to marble-sized hail was reported by spotters.
June 1994HailElsie-One-inch hail reported by spotter.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindElsie-no account filed
July 1996HailElsie-no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindElsie-no account filed
May 1994HailElsie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Duplain4.5 miles14
Ovid5.8 miles14
Shepardsville6.2 miles14
Eureka6.8 miles14
Saint Johns10.9 miles14
Westchester Heights11.7 miles14
Price12.2 miles14
Maple Rapids16.2 miles14

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 ElsieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319739The 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 625542. 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.