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Morenci, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Morenci City. It lies in ZIP code area 49256. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morenci quadrangle. 2,270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Morenci within Lenawee County

On record in Morenci

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

Morenci grew from 2,220 to 2,270 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
20102,220
20202,270+50 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Morenci in 2019, burning about 7 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000045 - 2019
27 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000064 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000044 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000066 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000063 - 2019
25 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000061 - 2019
17 January 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000007 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morenci: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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.Brick and Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morenci in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 lightning. 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
August 2001LightningMorenci$150,000Lightning ignited a barn. The fire completely destroyed the barn and the contents inside it; including a truck, a tractor, a grain truck, a travel trailer, lawn mowers and tools. Firefighters managed to save the house next to the barn. The house sustained only minor damage.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMorenci$80,000Strong straight-line winds associated with a thunderstorm destroyed five mobile homes in a campground. Extenseive damage was done to the roof of a house when a large tree fell on the roof.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorenci$60,000Local media reported trees and wires. A garage and car were also damaged.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMorenci$35,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorenci$30,000Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
July 1998LightningMorenci$18,000A barn burned to the ground after being struck by lightning.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMorenci$10,000Many trees were uprooted. A church also sustained roof and brick damage.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMorenci$10,000Thunderstorms moved east along a warm front in far southern Michigan. One of these became briefly severe, downing trees in the Morenci area.
April 1999LightningMorenci$7,000no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindMorenci$5,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMorenci$2,000Several power lines reported down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMorenci-Numerous trees and power lines were reported down in Morenci.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMorenci-Multiple trees reported down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMorenci-Local law enforcement reported a wire blown down.
April 2020HailMorenci-no account filed
August 2013HailMorenci-no account filed
June 2008HailMorenci-no account filed
June 2008HailMorenci-no account filed
June 2005HailMorenci-no account filed
May 2004HailMorenci-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindMorenci-no account filed
April 1996HailMorenci-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
North Morenci3.1 miles11
Seneca5.2 miles11
Canandaigua5.5 miles11
Munson5.9 miles16
Medina6.6 miles11
Lime Creek6.7 miles11
Weston7.3 miles10
Sand Creek9.6 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 MorenciAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1947558The 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 632677. 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.