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Jennings, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49651. The Survey maps it on the Jennings quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Jennings within Missaukee County

Population over time

2 figures

Jennings fell from 264 to 229 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
2010264
2020229-35 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Jennings between 1992 and 2019, burning about 153 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 06 LACHANCE ROAD
15 September 2018Natural4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 06
5 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE CITY AREA FIRE DEPARTMENT 0000045 - 2019
23 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 01
17 August 1996Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missaukee 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 Jennings: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Minthorn's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Missaukee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jennings in 1 storm report in 1998: 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindJennings-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and tore 8 - 9" diameter branches off of others.

Every storm recorded in Missaukee 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
Arlene4.0 miles12
Lake City4.4 miles12
Morey7.7 miles12
Lucas7.9 miles13
Stoney Corner9.6 miles13
Cutcheon10.5 miles12
McBain10.6 miles11
Keelans Corner11.8 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 JenningsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16302056The 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 629259. 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.