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Mesick, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Springville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49668. It stands on Preston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mesick quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Mesick within Wexford County

Population over time

2 figures

Mesick grew from 394 to 397 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
2010394
2020397+3 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mesick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGVILLE TOWNSHIP FD ST19051 - 2019
8 July 2020Other causes5.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 03 - XMAS FIRE
4 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 07
19 June 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGVILLE TOWNSHIP FD ST18032 - 2018
19 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National Forest20 ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mesick in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMesick$12,000Two spotters estimated winds at 60 mph. Several trees were downed, and a pole barn was partially unroofed.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindMesick$5,000Trees and power lines downed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMesick$5,000Numerous power lines and trees were knocked down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMesick-A tree was downed near M-42.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMesick-Trees down
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMesick-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines. Some trees were toppled onto homes.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMesick-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees along M-72 and M-37.
June 2008HailMesick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wexford 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
Glengary1.3 miles12
Sherman1.6 miles12
Bagnall2.8 miles12
Yuma4.6 miles12
Harrietta6.6 miles12
Harlan6.7 miles12
Buckley7.1 miles12
Meauwataka9.9 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 MesickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2448371The 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 1620798. 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.