Otisville, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Forest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48463. The Survey maps it on the Otisville quadrangle. 819 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.
On record in Otisville
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 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresOtisville fell from 864 to 819 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 | 864 | |
| 2020 | 819 | -45 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1920 USGS Flint quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1922 USGS Flint quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Flint quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Otisville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Otisville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 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 use | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 425 - 2020 |
| 4 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 78 - 2020 |
| 30 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2019 |
| 19 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 63 - 2020 |
| 1 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 96 - 2019 |
| 11 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 94 - 2018 |
| 26 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 81 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Otisville: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferguson Excavating Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Genesee County Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kurtz Gravel Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kurtz Gravel Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kurtz Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mathews Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Otisville Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stillman Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otisville in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 15 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 8 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Lightning | Otisville | 8 hurt | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | $5,000 | Numerous trees reported blown down across Forest Township. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | A large tree was reported uprooted and landed onto a house. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | Trained spotters reported several trees 7 inches in diameter down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | A trained weather spotter estimated a 75 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | A trained weather spotter estimated a 75 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | A trained weather spotter estimated 65 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | Trained spotters reported that thunderstorm winds blew several large tree limbs down. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otisville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Otisville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogersville | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Richfield Center | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Russellville | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Genesee | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Thetford Center | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Davison | 9.1 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Morris | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Pine Run | 10.1 miles | 16 |
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 Otisville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1019465 | 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 634154. 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.








