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Imlay City, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Imlay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48444. The Survey maps it on the Imlay City quadrangle. 3,703 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Imlay City within Lapeer County

On record in Imlay City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Imlay City grew from 3,597 to 3,703 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
20103,597
20203,703+106 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Imlay City between 2004 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000051 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATTICA TOWNSHIP FD 0000023 - 2018
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000041 - 2018
24 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATTICA TOWNSHIP FD 0000019 - 2018
19 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000006 - 2018
4 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000122 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Imlay City: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Farley's Clay PitClayPast Producer
Attica Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baritt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vannini PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imlay City in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindImlay City$100,000Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down, some of which brought down power lines and fell onto homes. Power lines were also reported being snapped.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Imlay City$45,000no account filed
July 2002LightningImlay City$25,000A newspaper reported that a house was struck by lightning and caught fire. The damage was reportedly confined to one bedroom and its contents.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindImlay City$15,000An old barn was blown over and wires were also reported down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindImlay City$8,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindImlay City$5,000Multiple trees and power line reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindImlay City$5,000The local newspaper reported a large tree branch 15 inches in diameter down on two cars parked in the driveway of a home on S. Almont Ave. The damage to the cars was estimated at roughly $5K.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindImlay City$3,000Numerous power lines and tree limbs reported down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindImlay City$2,000Power lines were reported blown down by the wind.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Numerous trees and power lines down across the county, particularly across Lapeer, Attica, and north of Imlay City.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Trees reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Numerous trees and power lines reported down across Imlay City, as well as much of southern Lapeer county.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindImlay City-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Several 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Broadcast media reported large tree branches down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Law enforcement reported a tree down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindImlay City-A local newspaper reported several trees blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. A section of a barn roof was also ripped off.
September 2005Flash FloodImlay City-Reports of extensive flooding on streets throughout Lapeer and Imlay City. A trained spotter reported 2.9 inches of rain had fallen.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Dozens of trees and tree limbs down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindImlay City-A trained spotter reported a small tree and tree limbs down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindImlay City-A trained weather spotter reported a small tree and 6 inch tree limbs down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Hail of 0.75-inch diameter fell in both Metamora and North branch. Thunderstorm winds gusts knocked down power lines in Imlay City.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindImlay City-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down power lines and scattered large trees in Imlay City.
April 2020HailImlay City-no account filed
March 2012HailImlay City-no account filed
April 2008HailImlay City-no account filed
July 2000HailImlay City-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F1)Imlay City-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindImlay City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Attica4.7 miles10
Goodland4.8 miles10
Dryden5.9 miles11
Lum6.5 miles10
Almont7.4 miles11
Kings Mill9.5 miles10
Thornville9.6 miles11
Five Lakes11.5 miles10

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 Imlay CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q589348The 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 628928. 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.