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Millington, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Millington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48746. The Survey maps it on the Vassar quadrangle. 1,028 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Millington within Tuscola County

On record in Millington

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

Millington fell from 1,072 to 1,028 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
20101,072
20201,028-44 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Millington between 2018 and 2019, burning about 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000180 - 2018
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000172 - 2018
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0732018 - 2018
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000164 - 2018
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0562018 - 2018
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000141 - 2019
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000147 - 2018
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0462018 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Millington: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 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
Baxter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Genesee County Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kaestor Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stillman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millington in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2007Tornado (EF1)Millington1 hurt, $500,000This tornado touched down at 0016EST, just southwest of the town of Millington, near the intersection of Barnes and Fulmer roads. It tracked northeastward and was on the ground for 2 miles before lifting near Main street and Caine Road in Millington. This tornado was rated a strong EF1 with winds estimated around 105 mph. A modular home was completely destroyed, another home received substantial damage after being battered by debris from the destroyed modular home and a framed house lost a section of its roof. Miraculously, a 14-month-old baby, sleeping in a crib in the modular home, received only minor cuts and bruises after being tossed 25 feet and buried under about 4 feet of beams, rafters, and other debris from the demolished home. Total property damages were estimated at $500K. The average path width was 30 yards.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMillington$15,000Numerous trees and power lines down in and around Millington.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMillington$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMillington$10,000no account filed
October 2019Thunderstorm WindMillington$5,000Trees and tree limbs blown onto power lines.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Millington$5,000A tornado touched down 1 mile west of Fostoria. Numerous trees were blown down. Two homes also sustained roof damage.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMillington$4,000Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMillington-Numerous trees and power lines down near Millington, as well as large tree uprooted.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMillington-A large tree was blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMillington-Several small trees were reported blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMillington-Trained spotters reported several large tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds.
June 2006HailMillington-no account filed
April 2002HailMillington-no account filed
June 2002HailMillington-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindMillington-no account filed
June 1998HailMillington-no account filed
September 1996HailMillington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Juniata5.9 miles10
Vassar6.9 miles10
Tuscola7.4 miles10
Fostoria8.6 miles9
Mayville10.1 miles9
Denmark Junction11.4 miles10
Richville11.8 miles10
Watrousville11.8 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 MillingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2547235The 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 632413. 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.