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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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Hersey within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Hersey 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.

YearPeople Change
2010350
2020347-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

43 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 06
17 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHERSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000120 - 2019
26 August 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 06
3 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big RapidsPotassiumProspect
Hershey Potash MinePotassiumProducer
Cousineau Gravel Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hersey Gravel ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2021Thunderstorm WindHersey$100,000Widespread wind damage in the form of downed trees was reported near Hersey.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHersey$20,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHersey$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down along US-10 and in and near Tustin.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHersey$1,000Strong winds blew out a garage door in Hersey.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHersey-A 54 knot wind gust was recorded by a trained spotter.
June 2008Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Reed City3.9 miles13
Slaybaugh Corner6.7 miles13
Orono7.7 miles13
Ashton9.1 miles13
Evart10.5 miles13
Dewing's (historical)11.1 miles14
Le Roy13.1 miles12
Sears14.2 miles12

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 HerseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1994646The 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.