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Lexington, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lexington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48450. The Survey maps it on the Croswell quadrangle. 943 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Lexington within Sanilac County

On record in Lexington

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lexington fell from 1,178 to 943 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
20101,178
2020943-235 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 2018 and 2019, burning about 3 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/undetermined2
Natural1

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 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROSWELL FD 2019067 - 2019
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000122 - 2018
13 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000332 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanilac 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 Lexington: 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
Port Huron Clay Prod Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 waterspout. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLexington$4,000Numerous tree limbs and powerlines down in the area.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindLexington$3,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees reported blown down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees reported blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees were reported down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLexington-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLexington-Central dispatch reported several trees and power lines blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLexington-Local law enforcement reported a large tree blown down.
September 2001WaterspoutLexington-The waterspout was witnessed by boaters a quarter of a mile from the breakwall offshore of Lexington.
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
June 2006HailLexington-no account filed
April 2003HailLexington-no account filed
September 2001HailLexington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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
Lexington Heights3.0 miles10
Great Lakes Beach3.6 miles10
Huronia Heights3.9 miles10
Blue Water Beach4.3 miles10
Birch Beach4.7 miles10
Croswell4.8 miles10
Amadore5.8 miles10
Pine Hill (historical)6.3 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 LexingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1822339The 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 630359. 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.