Marcellus, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Marcellus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49067. The Survey maps it on the Marcellus quadrangle. 1,074 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
On record in Marcellus
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 3 records
Jones, Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul), Houselisted 1997
G. W. Jones Houselisted 1994
George Newton Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresMarcellus fell from 1,198 to 1,074 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,198 | |
| 2020 | 1,074 | -124 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Marcellus quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Marcellus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Marcellus quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Marcellus between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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 use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000040 - 2018 |
| 6 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019 |
| 22 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000308 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000030 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000029 - 2018 |
| 23 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000025 - 2018 |
| 23 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000027 - 2018 |
| 22 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARCELLUS FD 0000024 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcellus in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | $15,000 | Pictures of a barn that sustained damage at Bradt and W Main St. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | $15,000 | Trees and power poles are down. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | $12,500 | A severe thunderstorm downed a tree and several large limbs in the village of Marcellus. The downed tree landed on a vehicle parked at the corner of S. Centre and Dibble Street. Limbs and power lines were downed on N. Centre and North Streets and at the corner of Arbor and Snyder Street. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | $5,000 | Trees downed in Marcellus. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | A trained spotter reported several small tree limbs down as well as a car rolled on its side for an unknown reason. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | Numerous reports of trees down in the area south of Marcellus. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 75 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph wind gust. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Marcellus | - | Law enforcement officials received several reports of quarter size hail. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | Pictures were posted on a local media outlets social media page of large tree branches being blown down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | A survey of damage indicated the start of a roughly one mile wide swath of wind damage across northeastern Cass county. Numerous trees were damaged as a result of a concentrated burst of wind that continued into St. Joseph county in Michigan. Winds were likely in the 70 to 75 mph range as the line of storms moved into St. Joseph county. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Marcellus | - | Highway 40, just south of Marcellus, was flooded for several hours as 5 to 6 inches of rain fell between 430 pm and 9 pm EST. No injuries or rescues were reported due to the flooding. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcellus | - | Trees down. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Marcellus | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wakelee | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Nicholsville | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Volinia | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Penn | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| Jones | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Corey | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Vandalia | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Spring Beach | 11.1 miles | 16 |
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 Marcellus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2197218 | The 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 631539. 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.






