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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.

Pigeon within Huron County

Population over time

2 figures

Pigeon 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,208
20201,222+14 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2019

Regional 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/undetermined5

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
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019031 - 2019
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019033 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVER TOWNSHIP FD 2019023 - 2019
27 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 2019053 - 2019
16 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 2019046 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pigeon PlantAsbestosProducer
Wallace Stone PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Wallace Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bayport Quarry LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Windsor Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Flash FloodPigeon$35,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPigeon$20,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPigeon$8,000A trained spotter reported numerous trees down, damaging at least one house and one shed.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPigeon$1,000Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPigeon$200Several large tree branches fell across the road just north of Pigeon.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPigeon-Large tree branches reported down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPigeon-Large maple tree uprooted with many large limbs reported down as well.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPigeon-Eight inch diameter tree branches reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeon-Trees reported blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPigeon-Two trees were reported blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPigeon-A spotter reported several 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
September 1993HailPigeon-Quarter-size hail was reported by a spotter.
April 2025HailPigeon-no account filed
August 2015HailPigeon-no account filed
May 2006HailPigeon-no account filed
May 2004HailPigeon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Berne1.0 miles8
Elkton4.8 miles8
Linkville5.0 miles8
Bay Port5.6 miles8
Weale6.9 miles9
Kilmanagh6.9 miles8
Owendale7.0 miles8
Caseville7.7 miles8

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 PigeonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2201257The 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.