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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.

Marcellus within Cass County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Marcellus 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,198
20201,074-124 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 2018

Regional 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000040 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000308 - 2019
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000030 - 2019
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000029 - 2018
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000025 - 2018
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000027 - 2018
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARCELLUS FD 0000024 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$15,000Pictures of a barn that sustained damage at Bradt and W Main St.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$15,000Trees and power poles are down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$12,500A 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 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcellus$5,000Trees downed in Marcellus.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter reported several small tree limbs down as well as a car rolled on its side for an unknown reason.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Numerous reports of trees down in the area south of Marcellus.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 75 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph wind gust.
June 2013HailMarcellus-Law enforcement officials received several reports of quarter size hail.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Pictures were posted on a local media outlets social media page of large tree branches being blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-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 2006Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Several trees were blown down.
July 2005Flash FloodMarcellus-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 2000Thunderstorm WindMarcellus-Trees down.
September 2025HailMarcellus-no account filed
April 2016HailMarcellus-no account filed
April 2016HailMarcellus-no account filed
May 2012HailMarcellus-no account filed
May 2000HailMarcellus-no account filed
August 1998HailMarcellus-no account filed
August 1998HailMarcellus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Wakelee4.4 miles16
Nicholsville4.4 miles12
Volinia7.4 miles12
Penn8.4 miles16
Jones8.6 miles16
Corey9.0 miles16
Vandalia9.2 miles16
Spring Beach11.1 miles16

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 MarcellusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2197218The 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.