Morley, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Aetna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49336. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howard City quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMorley grew from 493 to 517 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 493 | |
| 2020 | 517 | +24 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Howard City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Howard City NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Howard City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Morley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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 use | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORLEY AREA FD 2019064 - 2019 |
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAND LAKE FD 0000296 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 696 - 2020 |
| 20 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 370 - 2020 |
| 19 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORLEY AREA FD 1800049 - 2018 |
| 12 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA 03 |
| 8 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORLEY AREA FD 2019043 - 2019 |
| 26 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORLEY AREA FD 2019045 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morley in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Hail | Morley | $250,000 | The public reported very large hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter across portions of Mecosta county. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Morley | $50,000 | The fire department reported golf ball sized hail in Morley. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $25,000 | Multiple trees and limbs were blown down. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Morley | $15,000 | One inch diameter hail was reported in Morley. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Morley | $10,000 | Three quarters inch hail was reported in Morley. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $10,000 | Several trees were downed in Morley. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $5,000 | Numerous trees were blown down across the southern portion of Mecosta county. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | $5,000 | Numerous trees were blown down at 220th and One Mile road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morley | - | A tree and a few limbs were blown down near Morley. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borland | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Higbee Corner | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Rustford | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Stanwood | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Altona | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Canadian Lakes | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Sylvester | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Halls Corner | 12.1 miles | 12 |
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 Morley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2448206 | The 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 1620897. 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.
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.








