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Mason, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Mason City. It lies in ZIP code area 48854. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle. 8,283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Mason within Ingham County

On record in Mason

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mason grew from 8,252 to 8,283 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
20108,252
20208,283+31 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Mason between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 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 use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 159 - 2019
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 157 - 2019
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 131 - 2020
17 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1866 - 2019
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 142 - 2020
11 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 141 - 2020
4 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 96 - 2020
24 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 133 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ingham 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 Mason: 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
Capitol PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Couch Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snider Farms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sniders No 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tomlinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weaver Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mason in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindMason$25,000Law enforcement reported that a severe thunderstorm blew down numerous trees and powerlines mainly just east of US-127.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMason$25,000Several trees were blown down in Mason.
June 2005HailMason$25,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMason$20,000no account filed
May 2004HailMason$15,000Three quarters to one inch diameter hail was reported near Mason.
April 2006HailMason$10,000Law enforcement eight miles east of Mason reported one inch diameter hail.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMason$10,000A 58 m.p.h. wind gust was measured by an AWOS site in Mason.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindMason$5,000Thunderstorm winds tore a roof from an unoccupied office trailer at the county fairgrounds south of the city. A wind gust over 50 mph was measured at Mason-Jewett Airport (1.3 miles southeast of Mason).
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMason$2,500Ingham County Central Dispatch reported several trees downed around Mason.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMason$2,000Several tree limbs were blown down near Mason.
September 2022HailMason-Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported.
May 2013HailMason-Three quarters inch hail was reported by an amateur radio operator near Mason.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMason-Scattered downed trees and power outages were reported across much of Ingham county.
May 2012HailMason-A trained spotter measured hail up to an inch and a quarter in diameter in Mason.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMason-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the Lansing Capital City Airport.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMason-Wind damage and power outages reported by spotter.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMason-60 mph wind gust reported by Skywarn spotter.
April 1998HailMason-no account filed
July 1997HailMason-no account filed
July 1997HailMason-no account filed
May 1997HailMason-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindMason-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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
Eden3.9 miles11
North Aurelius5.3 miles13
Aurelius5.6 miles13
Holt5.7 miles14
Pollok6.1 miles13
North Leslie6.8 miles11
Dansville7.6 miles13
Meridian8.7 miles11

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 MasonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1987548The 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 631694. 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.