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Michigan Center, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Leoni Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49254. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Michigan Center quadrangle. 4,609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Michigan Center within Jackson County

Population over time

3 figures

Michigan Center fell from 4,641 to 4,609 between 2000 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
20004,641
20104,672+31 (+1%)
20204,609-63 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

48 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural9
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3751 - 2018
20 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3627 - 2018
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 0000352 - 2018
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3240 - 2018
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3054 - 2018
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 2561 - 2018
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 14314 - 2018
28 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 14802 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Michigan Center: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Am Vitrified Prod Co Clay Shale PitClayPast Producer
Palmer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Leoni3.2 miles17
Holiday Manor Park3.2 miles12
Jackson4.0 miles19
Vandercook Lake4.4 miles19
Oak Point4.7 miles17
Grass Lake6.2 miles15
Napoleon6.6 miles13
Roots7.1 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 Michigan CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2522970The 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 632205. 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.