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Montrose, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Montrose City. It lies in ZIP code area 48457. It stands on Armstrong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montrose quadrangle. 1,743 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Montrose within Genesee County

Population over time

2 figures

Montrose grew from 1,657 to 1,743 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
20101,657
20201,743+86 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Montrose between 2003 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 5 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 use8
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 233 - 2020
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE GROVE TWP FD 0004719 - 2019
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTROSE TOWNSHIP FD 0000073 - 2018
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTROSE TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2018
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBEE TOWNSHIP FD 1800037 - 2018
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTROSE TOWNSHIP FD 0000063 - 2018
29 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAZELTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000015 - 2019
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTROSE TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Montrose: 2 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
Kish Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snelenberger Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMontrose$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMontrose$3,000Law enforcement reported power lines and two trees down in Montrose.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMontrose$3,000A trained spotter reported many large tree branches down, as well as a few trees. One tree fell on a garage, causing some structural damage. Property damages were roughly estimated at $3K.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMontrose$2,000Local media reported down trees and siding torn from homes.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Several large tree limbs observed down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Montrose-A tornado briefly touched down near Duffield and Mt. Morris Roads.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Trees and power lines were reported blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Local law enforcement reported trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Trees blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and peeled some siding off a home in Montrose. Lightning struck a 60 by 140 feet barn, two miles southeast of Grand Blanc, resulting in a blaze that destroyed the entire structure. The one horse that was an inhabitant of the barn, was rescued from the fire. The barn was one of the largest in Genesee County, and was valued at $30,000.
September 2021HailMontrose-no account filed
January 2020FloodMontrose-no account filed
August 2007HailMontrose-no account filed
April 2006HailMontrose-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMontrose-no account filed
August 2003HailMontrose-no account filed
May 2002HailMontrose-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F1)Montrose-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F1)Montrose-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMontrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Brent Creek4.1 miles14
Flushing8.1 miles14
Clio8.4 miles16
Farrandville8.9 miles16
Pine Run9.5 miles16
Mount Morris11.2 miles16
Beecher12.1 miles16
Thetford Center13.4 miles16

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 MontroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2175484The 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 632609. 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.