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Gagetown, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elmwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48735. The Survey maps it on the Gagetown quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Gagetown within Tuscola County

Population over time

2 figures

Gagetown fell from 388 to 321 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
2010388
2020321-67 (-17%)

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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Gagetown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 79 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
Debris and open burning4

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAGETOWN-ELMWOOD TWP FD 19F1063 - 2019
14 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCOLA 01 - CASS CITY REKINDLE
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000069 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018
7 April 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning70 acresOttawa National Wildlife Refuge4/3/2010
2 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

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 Gagetown: 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
Vollmer Sand and Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gagetown in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGagetown-Three large trees were blown down.

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
Cass City5.4 miles8
Elmwood5.4 miles8
Huntsville Park5.9 miles8
Colwood6.5 miles8
Ellington8.2 miles8
Colling9.3 miles9
Deford10.3 miles8
Unionville11.7 miles9

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 GagetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2503715The 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 626592. 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.