Fairgrove, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairgrove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48733. The Survey maps it on the Fairgrove quadrangle. 514 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFairgrove fell from 563 to 514 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 | 563 | |
| 2020 | 514 | -49 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Fairgrove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fairgrove between 2009 and 2020, burning about 9 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019 |
| 25 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | AKRON FD 7901025 - 2020 |
| 11 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018 |
| 4 May 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | TURKEY |
| 28 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0001919 - 2019 |
| 7 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0001219 - 2019 |
| 22 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | REESE FIRE RESCUE 29 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairgrove: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powell Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairgrove in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | $6,000 | A trained spotter reported many tree branches 3 to 5 inches in diameter down in Fairgrove. The local Police Chief reported the heaviest damage just outside the village limits where trees and power lines were down. A temporary storage shed was also destroyed by the wind. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | $2,000 | Power poles reported blown down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | $500 | A power line pole was snapped. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | A tree was reported blown down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Small tree branches were blown down . |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | A trained spotter reported large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 65 MPH. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | Central dispatch reported multiple trees blown down in Fairgrove. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairgrove | - | Trained spotters reported several large tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | A severe thunderstorm moved southeast across Tuscola County on the 6th, dropping large hail over the communities of Fairgrove and Caro. In Caro, a car dealership suffered damages in excess of $100,000 to their stock of both used and new cars. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Fairgrove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Gilford | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Watrousville | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Karrs Corner | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Bradleyville | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wisner | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wahjamega | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Caro | 8.1 miles | 11 |
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 Fairgrove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2161510 | 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 625751. 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.



