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Lawrence, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49064. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 964 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Lawrence within Van Buren County

On record in Lawrence

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lawrence fell from 996 to 964 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
2010996
2020964-32 (-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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
14 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000145 - 2019
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 415 - 2020
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 334 - 2020
4 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 19043 - 2019
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 138 - 2019
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKEELER TOWNSHIP FIRE RESCUE 56 - 2020
11 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 173 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lawrence: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plopper Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Van Buren County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrence in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindLawrence$30,000Law enforcement in Lawrence reported that several trees were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLawrence$15,000Van Buren County Central Dispatch reported a tree fell through a house trailer in Lawrence Township. No injuries were reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLawrence$10,000Van Buren county dispatch reported that several trees and power lines were blown down across portions of the county.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLawrence$10,000Law enforcement reported several trees were blown down in Lawrence.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLawrence$10,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLawrence$5,000Van Buren County Central Dispatch reported large tree limbs and power lines downed in Lawrence.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLawrence$1,000One tree was blown down in Lawrence township.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLawrence-Widespread tree limbs with several trees blown down along an eight mile long and 5 mile wide path which includes the town of Lawrence. Utility lines were downed by falling trees in Lawrence. Tree damage extended southeast to Eagle Lake.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLawrence-Bloomingdale law enforcement reported trees and power lines were downed in Lawrence Township. A damage estimate was not available.
June 1994HailLawrence-About a dozen trees were blown down by strong thunderstorms winds.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLawrence-About a dozen trees were blown down by strong thunderstorms winds.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Wildeys4.4 miles12
Teapot Dome4.6 miles12
Stoughton Corners6.1 miles10
Hartford6.2 miles10
Fritzburg6.4 miles10
McDonald6.4 miles11
Bangor7.2 miles11
Glendale7.7 miles13

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 LawrenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2142951The 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 630210. 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.