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Mancelona, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mancelona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49659. The Survey maps it on the Mancelona quadrangle. 1,344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

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Mancelona within Antrim County

Population over time

2 figures

Mancelona fell from 1,390 to 1,344 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
20101,390
20201,344-46 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mancelona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2004Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 05 - COUNTY LINE
9 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015934 - 2018
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015601 - 2018
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015538 - 2018
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0015433 - 2018
25 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCELONA FD 0017235 - 2018
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 03 - JOHNSON RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mancelona: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 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
Antrim Co Pit Schworm IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Antrim Co Pit Wiggins & SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Antrim Co Pits/Tri-Co Sand & StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kler's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kler's Pit Manthei Dev CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mancelona PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilkes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mancelona in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMancelona$40,000Numerous trees were downed. A garage was destroyed by a falling tree. A large billboard was bent over.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMancelona$18,000Sporadic tree damage, with a few trees down along with numerous large limbs. Power lines downed.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindMancelona$5,000A few trees were downed onto power lines in western Mancelona Township, including near Cedar River Rd and Doerr Rd.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindMancelona$4,000Several trees were downed in southeastern Mancelona.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMancelona$4,000Trees and power lines downed.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMancelona$3,000A large tree and multiple tree limbs were downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMancelona$3,000Trees were downed near Cinder Hill Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMancelona$3,000Several trees downed.
July 2024FloodMancelona$1,000Broadcast media showed photos of minor flooding in the Mancelona area. 2.31 inches of rain was reported at an automated mesonet station in Mancelona as of 820pm, with a storm total of over 3 inches reported by a CoCoRaHS observer the next morning.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMancelona-Report of powerlines down in the vicinity of Antrim and Mancelona, accompanied by public reports of dime sized hail and torrential rainfall in this area.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMancelona-A spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindMancelona-2 trees down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMancelona-Numerous trees down.
June 2008HailMancelona-no account filed
October 2007HailMancelona-no account filed
July 2006HailMancelona-no account filed
June 2005HailMancelona-no account filed
June 2000HailMancelona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
Antrim1.1 miles16
Wetzel2.6 miles16
Green River6.0 miles16
Alba7.0 miles13
Bellaire9.6 miles15
North Arms10.2 miles15
Finkton10.9 miles12
Chestonia10.9 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 MancelonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2796846The 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 631374. 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.