Pellston, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in McKinley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49769. The Survey maps it on the Pellston quadrangle. 774 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPellston fell from 822 to 774 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 | 822 | |
| 2020 | 774 | -48 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pellston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Pellston quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
36 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Pellston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2004 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PELLSTON FD 097920 - 2019 |
| 25 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE RIVER FIRE |
| 24 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EMMET 08 - DAM FIRE |
| 16 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHEBOYGAN 10 - ABANDONED CAMPFIRE |
| 8 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pellston in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2004: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pellston | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Pellston | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pellston | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pellston | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Pellston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Brutus | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ayr | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Levering | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Alanson | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant View | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Marsh Corner | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Canby Corners | 9.0 miles | 11 |
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 Pellston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2781932 | 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 634571. 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.




