Pigeon, Michigan
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Winsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48755. The Survey maps it on the Bay Port East quadrangle. 1,222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPigeon grew from 1,208 to 1,222 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 | 1,208 | |
| 2020 | 1,222 | +14 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Bay Port East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon in 2019, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019031 - 2019 |
| 22 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019033 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019023 - 2019 |
| 27 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 2019053 - 2019 |
| 16 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 2019046 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pigeon: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Asbestos. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pigeon Plant | Asbestos | Producer | ||
| Wallace Stone Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Wallace Stone Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Bayport Quarry Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Windsor Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pigeon in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Pigeon | $35,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | $8,000 | A trained spotter reported numerous trees down, damaging at least one house and one shed. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were reported blown down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | $200 | Several large tree branches fell across the road just north of Pigeon. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | Large tree branches reported down. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | Large maple tree uprooted with many large limbs reported down as well. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | Eight inch diameter tree branches reported down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | Trees reported blown down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | Two trees were reported blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon | - | A spotter reported several 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Pigeon | - | Quarter-size hail was reported by a spotter. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pigeon | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Pigeon | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Pigeon | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pigeon | - | 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.
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 Pigeon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2201257 | 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 634847. 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.



