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Metamora, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Metamora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48455. The Survey maps it on the Metamora quadrangle. 594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Metamora within Lapeer County

On record in Metamora

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Metamora grew from 565 to 594 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
2010565
2020594+29 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Metamora between 2003 and 2019, burning about 29 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 use7
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 September 2010Debris and open burning7.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER 01
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000243 - 2018
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELBA TOWNSHIP FD 0000075 - 2019
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000218 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHADLEY TOWNSHIP FD 0719066 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000119 - 2018
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000115 - 2018
15 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Metamora: 5 producers. 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
Corey and Hartwig Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Metamora Pit and MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parrish Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metamora in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMetamora$500,000Very strong straight line winds, estimated at 80 to 100 mph, in a post-storm damage survey, caused a damage path of about one-quarter mile wide and two miles long that ran from west to east off Lake Metamora. A garage was destroyed and several houses sustained damage. A lawn chair was driven into the side of a house. A chimney was partially destroyed along with part of a roof on one house. Another house suffered damage as the back porch, including its roof, was blown away. The roof of the porch landed on a vehicle parked in a driveway next door. A pontoon boat was overturned and numerous large limbs, some more than three to four inches in diameter, were ripped from numerous trees along a drive. The damage was estimated well in excess of $100,000.
September 2000Flash FloodMetamora$125,000Gravel roads were washed out in Almont and Dryden Townships. Roads were also flooded to the west, in Deerfield and Metamora Townships. Some culverts were displaced where the gravel had washed out. Annrook Park in the city of Lapeer was flooded by the Flint River. Fields were flooded and driveways washed out in Imlay City.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMetamora$75,000Dozens of trees down, along with large signs. A metal light post was also blown down.
July 2000Flash FloodMetamora$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMetamora$8,000no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindMetamora$8,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMetamora$7,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMetamora$3,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMetamora-Twenty trees reported blown down mostly across the southern portions of the county. Power lines also downed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMetamora-Numerous trees down across southern Lapeer County.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMetamora-Numerous trees reported down.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindMetamora-Local law enforcement reported trees blown down.
July 2010HailMetamora-no account filed
May 2003HailMetamora-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMetamora-no account filed
April 1994HailMetamora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Hunters Creek3.1 miles12
Farmers Creek3.1 miles12
Thornville3.5 miles11
Hadley6.1 miles11
Kerr Hill6.5 miles11
Lapeer7.8 miles10
Dryden8.8 miles11
Attica9.0 miles10

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 MetamoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2106660The 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 632164. 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.