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Melvin, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Speaker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48454. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Melvin within Sanilac County

Population over time

2 figures

Melvin fell from 180 to 148 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
2010180
2020148-32 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Melvin between 2012 and 2020, burning about 39 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYALE FD 018-037 - 2018
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELK TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 1416 - 2020
26 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSANILAC 01 - FISHER RD.
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROWN CITY AREA FD 0000034 - 2018
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROCKWAY TOWNSHIP FD 020-049 - 2020
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPEAKER TOWNSHIP FD 0000015 - 2018
14 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPEAKER TOWNSHIP FD 0000017 - 2020
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELK TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 1113 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanilac County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Melvin: 1 producer. 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
St Clair County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melvin in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMelvin$5,000A power pole and wires reported down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMelvin$3,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMelvin-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindMelvin-Three trees were uprooted and 1 snapped near school complex.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMelvin-A power pole was reported down.
April 2020HailMelvin-no account filed
June 2004HailMelvin-no account filed
August 2004HailMelvin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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
Valley Center3.0 miles10
Speaker3.3 miles9
Peck5.5 miles10
Roseburg6.2 miles10
Brown City7.0 miles10
Watertown10.8 miles10
Cash11.9 miles10
Juhl12.8 miles9

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 MelvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2284524The 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 632084. 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.