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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.

Pellston within Emmet County

Population over time

2 figures

Pellston 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.

YearPeople Change
2010822
2020774-48 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

36 since 1992

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPELLSTON FD 097920 - 2019
25 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RIVER FIRE
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMET 08 - DAM FIRE
16 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 10 - ABANDONED CAMPFIRE
8 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPellston$5,000Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2000HailPellston-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPellston-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPellston-no account filed
August 1996HailPellston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Van2.8 miles11
Brutus4.1 miles14
Ayr5.6 miles14
Levering5.7 miles11
Alanson7.5 miles14
Pleasant View7.6 miles11
Marsh Corner8.2 miles11
Canby Corners9.0 miles11

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 PellstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2781932The 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.