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Oakley, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brady Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48649. It stands on Mickles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chesaning West quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Oakley within Saginaw County

On record in Oakley

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

Oakley grew from 290 to 299 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
2010290
2020299+9 (+3%)

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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Oakley between 2018 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4

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
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 88 - 2020
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 81 - 2019
23 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 55 - 2020
27 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 38 - 2020
26 April 2020Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 37 - 2020
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 51 - 2018
19 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 33 - 2020
28 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 41 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw 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 Oakley: 1 producer. 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
Fred Fitzgerald Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOakley$30,000A 50 inch diameter ash tree fall onto a home, puncturing three holes in the roof.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOakley$10,000Multiple trees down across Saginaw County.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOakley$10,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindOakley$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOakley$3,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOakley-A car port was blown into the air and landed about 200 feet away, taking down power lines in the process.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOakley-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2023HailOakley-no account filed
June 2004HailOakley-no account filed
October 2001HailOakley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Parshallburg1.8 miles15
Brady Center3.9 miles15
Chesaning4.2 miles15
Chapin7.3 miles14
Groveton7.4 miles15
Racy8.3 miles14
Brant8.9 miles15
Fenmore9.7 miles14

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 OakleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3039436The 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 633890. 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.