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Ithaca, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ithaca City. It lies in ZIP code area 48847. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca quadrangle. 2,853 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Ithaca within Gratiot County

On record in Ithaca

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

Ithaca fell from 2,910 to 2,853 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
20102,910
20202,853-57 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ithaca in 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000246 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000147 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000161 - 2019
26 April 2019Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000160 - 2019
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000138 - 2019
7 February 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000056 - 2019
13 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000444 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ithaca: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
J O Thomas Clay PitClayPast Producer
Kennet Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ithaca in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2020FloodIthaca$100,000Over a dozen roads were closed countywide due to water over roads. The Pine River went over flood stage and impacted roads in Alma.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Ithaca$25,000A F0 tornado producing maximum estimated wind speeds to 60 m.p.h. touched down just north of Pierce road, and moved north through downtown Ithaca, ending north of St. Charles street. The tornado had a path length of 2.5 miles and a width of 50 yards. The only damage observed was to trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIthaca$20,000Several large trees and power lines downed in Ithaca and scattered reports of the same across Gratiot County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIthaca$20,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindIthaca$15,000An emergency manager three miles east of Ithaca reported that several trees and limbs as well as power lines were blown down.
June 2004HailIthaca$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Ithaca.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIthaca$10,000Power lines and trees were downed in Ithaca.
June 2005HailIthaca$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIthaca$10,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIthaca$8,000Four trees were blown down countywide.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindIthaca$5,000A sign at a car wash was destroyed.
June 2004HailIthaca$5,000Trained spotters one to two miles north and northeast of Ithaca reported three quarters to seven eighths inch diameter hail.
August 2003HailIthaca$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported six miles north of the town of Ithaca.
February 1997Flash FloodIthaca-no account filed
July 1997HailIthaca-no account filed
August 1996HailIthaca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Beebe4.4 miles14
North Star4.5 miles13
Eugene5.3 miles14
Newark6.2 miles14
Alma6.6 miles14
Pompeii7.4 miles13
Ola7.9 miles13
Saint Louis8.0 miles14

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 IthacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2267158The 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 629141. 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.