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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.

Morley within Mecosta County

Population over time

2 figures

Morley 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.

YearPeople Change
2010493
2020517+24 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

30 since 2005

Regional 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 use17
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
3 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORLEY AREA FD 2019064 - 2019
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE FD 0000296 - 2019
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 696 - 2020
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 370 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORLEY AREA FD 1800049 - 2018
12 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 03
8 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORLEY AREA FD 2019043 - 2019
26 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORLEY AREA FD 2019045 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mecosta County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020HailMorley$250,000The public reported very large hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter across portions of Mecosta county.
September 2010HailMorley$50,000The fire department reported golf ball sized hail in Morley.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMorley$25,000Multiple trees and limbs were blown down.
September 2006HailMorley$15,000One inch diameter hail was reported in Morley.
October 2006HailMorley$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported in Morley.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMorley$10,000Several trees were downed in Morley.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMorley$5,000Numerous trees were blown down across the southern portion of Mecosta county.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMorley$5,000Numerous trees were blown down at 220th and One Mile road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMorley-A tree and a few limbs were blown down near Morley.

Every storm recorded in Mecosta 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
Borland3.2 miles14
Higbee Corner4.5 miles14
Rustford5.6 miles14
Stanwood6.1 miles14
Altona7.7 miles14
Canadian Lakes9.7 miles14
Sylvester10.6 miles14
Halls Corner12.1 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 MorleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2448206The 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.