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Mulliken, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Roxand Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48861. The Survey maps it on the Portland South quadrangle. 525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Mulliken within Eaton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mulliken fell from 553 to 525 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
2010553
2020525-28 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mulliken between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined3

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
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORTLAND AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 0000038 - 2019
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019079 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019106 - 2019
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002169 - 2018
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002126 - 2020
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019069 - 2019
17 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2018071 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mulliken: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Pryor Brothers PitQuartzPast Producer
Grumfield Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulliken in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindMulliken$50,000A barn was blown down by a severe thunderstorm wind gust near the intersection of Dow and St. Joe roads.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMulliken$25,000no account filed
June 2003Tornado (F0)Mulliken$2,000A very brief tornado touchdown was reported in Mulliken, where a wooden swingset was displaced ten feet, the tops of two large pine trees were snapped off, and several five to six inch diameter limbs were blown down. The tornado was classified as a F0.
October 2007Funnel CloudMulliken-An emergency manager reported a funnel cloud two miles east of Mulliken.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Hoytville1.5 miles10
Sunfield5.1 miles10
Shaytown5.8 miles10
Needmore5.8 miles10
Little Venice5.9 miles10
Oneida Center6.7 miles10
Grand Ledge8.0 miles11
Gresham8.3 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 MullikenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2755005The 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 633112. 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.