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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.

Fairgrove within Tuscola County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairgrove 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.

YearPeople Change
2010563
2020514-49 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019
25 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAKRON FD 7901025 - 2020
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018
4 May 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestTURKEY
28 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001919 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0001219 - 2019
22 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREESE FIRE RESCUE 29 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Powell Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFairgrove$6,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindFairgrove$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFairgrove$3,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindFairgrove$2,000Power poles reported blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindFairgrove$500A power line pole was snapped.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-A tree was reported blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Small tree branches were blown down .
May 2007Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 65 MPH.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-Central dispatch reported multiple trees blown down in Fairgrove.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFairgrove-Trained spotters reported several large tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds.
July 1994HailFairgrove-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 2015HailFairgrove-no account filed
April 2008HailFairgrove-no account filed
June 2005HailFairgrove-no account filed
June 2005HailFairgrove-no account filed
August 2002HailFairgrove-no account filed
May 2001HailFairgrove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Akron3.4 miles9
Gilford4.6 miles10
Watrousville5.0 miles10
Karrs Corner5.4 miles10
Bradleyville5.9 miles9
Wisner6.8 miles9
Wahjamega7.2 miles11
Caro8.1 miles11

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 FairgroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2161510The 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.