Hersey, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hersey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49639. It stands on Hersey River. The Survey maps it on the Hersey quadrangle. 347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresHersey fell from 350 to 347 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 | 350 | |
| 2020 | 347 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Evart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Evart SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hersey quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hersey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 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 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OSCEOLA 06 |
| 17 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HERSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000120 - 2019 |
| 26 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA 06 |
| 3 June 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hersey: 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Rapids | Potassium | Prospect | ||
| Hershey Potash Mine | Potassium | Producer | ||
| Cousineau Gravel Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cousineau Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hersey Gravel Products | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hersey in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hersey | $100,000 | Widespread wind damage in the form of downed trees was reported near Hersey. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hersey | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hersey | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down along US-10 and in and near Tustin. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hersey | $1,000 | Strong winds blew out a garage door in Hersey. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hersey | - | A 54 knot wind gust was recorded by a trained spotter. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Hersey | - | A storm survey team in Osceola county determined that a tornado with peak winds approaching 110 mph struck an area from just northeast of Hersey to the Pere Marquette Forest. This corresponds to EF-1 damage on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. ||Damage occurred along an intermittent path about five miles long and up to a half a mile wide. The most intense damage occurred along Cedar road in the Pere Marquette Forest... where a half mile wide section of forest was flattened. Other significant damage occurred about four miles east of Reed City... where winds estimated at around 90 mph damaged a barn and trapped the occupants of a house until the day after the storm. ||The tornado occurred within a larger area of downburst wind damage that extended east northeast about 20 miles... beginning one mile northwest of Hersey to the Clare county line west of Lake George. Thousands of trees were snapped or uprooted and several barns and outbuildings were damaged by the winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reed City | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Slaybaugh Corner | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Orono | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Ashton | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Evart | 10.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dewing's (historical) | 11.1 miles | 14 | |
| Le Roy | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sears | 14.2 miles | 12 |
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 Hersey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1994646 | 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 628152. 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.








