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Owosso, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Owosso City. It lies in ZIP code area 48867. The Survey maps it on the Owosso South quadrangle. 14,714 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

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Owosso within Shiawassee County

On record in Owosso

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 12 of 34 shown

Every listing in Shiawassee County

Population over time

2 figures

Owosso fell from 15,194 to 14,714 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
201015,194
202014,714-480 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Owosso between 2018 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3

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
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO FD 182134 - 2018
19 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000129 - 2018
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCORUNNA-CALEDONIA FD 0000108 - 2019
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2018
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000100 - 2018
11 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000098 - 2018
4 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2018
18 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO FD 0001096 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee 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 Owosso: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Michigan Brick Pit and MillClayProducer
New Corunna Brick Co Clay Shale PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Owosso Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shiawassee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owosso in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindOwosso$10,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOwosso$8,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOwosso$6,000Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOwosso$5,000Power lines were blown down, resulting in an electrical fire.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindOwosso$5,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindOwosso$3,000Trees and wires reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOwosso$3,000Trained spotters reported several trees and power lines down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOwosso$2,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOwosso$2,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Trees reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Trees reported down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Large trees trees and power lines reported down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindOwosso-A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOwosso-At least 20 trees were snapped from a wet micro-burst close to the Shiawassee river in Owosso. Many of trees appeared unhealthy.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Law enforcement reported numerous trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOwosso-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOwosso-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Central dispatch reported trees blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Owosso-A tornado briefly touched down near M-52 and Garrison Roads. A 4 foot diameter tree was snapped.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Owosso-A weak tornado touched down in a farm field on West Dewey Road. Winds were strong enough to throw an empty grain bin 200 feet.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOwosso-A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Law enforcement reported trees and wires blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Poles and wires down at M21 adn Baldwin Rd.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Large limbs down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOwosso-Several trees blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOwosso-The Shiawassee County Sheriff's department reported numerous large limbs down from strong thunderstorm winds.
April 1994HailOwosso-Shiawassee County sheriff reported golf ball-size hail in both Perry and Owosso.
August 2022HailOwosso-no account filed
June 2006HailOwosso-no account filed
May 2004HailOwosso-no account filed
May 2004HailOwosso-no account filed
June 2002HailOwosso-no account filed
May 1998HailOwosso-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindOwosso-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOwosso-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOwosso-no account filed
April 1996HailOwosso-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOwosso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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
Middletown1.9 miles14
Five Points2.6 miles14
Smith Crossing3.2 miles15
Corunna3.3 miles13
Wolf Crossing4.8 miles15
Five Points North5.3 miles15
Bennington5.5 miles14
Kerby5.7 miles13

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 OwossoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2307592The 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 634254. 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.