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Lyons, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lyons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48851. It stands on Maple River. The Survey maps it on the Portland North quadrangle. 763 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Lyons within Ionia County

Population over time

2 figures

Lyons fell from 789 to 763 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
2010789
2020763-26 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 2018 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
12 July 2018Smoking15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN-ORANGE FD 0000214 - 2018
15 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIONIA DPS 0000130 - 2018
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLYONS-MUIR FD 0442019 - 2019
15 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLYONS-MUIR FD 0472019 - 2019
24 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIONIA DPS 0000173 - 2019
10 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIONIA DPS 0000045 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia 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 Lyons: 2 producers. All of them 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
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams Bros No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 2 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLyons$35,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLyons$4,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Muir1.0 miles10
Collins3.6 miles10
Prairie4.6 miles12
Pewamo5.5 miles10
South Ionia6.6 miles12
Ionia6.6 miles12
Portland8.1 miles10
Tremaine Corners8.8 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 LyonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319672The 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 631245. 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.