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Le Roy, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Le Roy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49655. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle. 260 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Le Roy within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Le Roy grew from 256 to 260 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
2010256
2020260+4 (+2%)

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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Le Roy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEROY-ROSE LAKE FD 2019095 - 2019
7 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARION COMMUNITY FD 119 - 2020
11 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSTIN AREA FD 2018144 - 2018
10 July 2018Debris and open burning5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 02
30 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEROY-ROSE LAKE FD 2019084 - 2019
7 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Roy in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$100,000A narrow corridor of damaging winds was surveyed near Wells lake. The damage started just west of 170th ave and continued over Wells lake eastward. Several trees were uprooted or snapped west of the lake with winds estimated near 70 mph. More extensive damage was found on the east side of the lake where two boats were flipped and nearly every tree was snapped or uprooted. ||Eyewitness accounts of the winds lasting on the order of minutes as well as the prevalence of damage oriented northwestward suggested straight line winds rather than a tornado.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$25,000Several large trees were blown down and a barn collapsed at 160th avenue and 15 mile road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$15,000Several trees were blown down in the area.
April 2001HailLe Roy$10,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$7,500no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$2,500Large trees downed across a road in Le Roy.

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
Dewing's (historical)3.5 miles14
Tustin4.5 miles12
Ashton5.2 miles13
Slaybaugh Corner6.6 miles13
Dighton6.7 miles13
Orono7.3 miles13
Ina10.4 miles13
Reed City11.6 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 Le RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1984322The 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 630237. 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.

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.