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Shelby, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shelby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49455. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. 1,994 people lived here at the 2022 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Shelby within Oceana County

Population over time

2 figures

Shelby fell from 2,065 to 1,964 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
20102,065
20201,964-101 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Shelby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 use9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
9 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY-BENONA FD 0000084 - 2019
8 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 17
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHART FD 92 - 2020
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 08

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shelby: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Beckman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beckman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelby in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindShelby$250,000Hundreds of trees were blown down across Oceana county.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindShelby$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindShelby$50,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindShelby$20,000Area media reported that the roof was blown off of a garage near Shelby and that a large tree was blown down.
July 2006HailShelby$15,000A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail in Shelby.
October 2006HailShelby$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported two miles west of Shelby.
July 2006HailShelby$10,000no account filed
March 2004HailShelby$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch hail in Shelby.
May 2002HailShelby$5,000Three quarters to one inch hail was reported in Shelby.
May 2012HailShelby-One inch diameter hail was reported by trained spotters in Hart and near Shelby.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShelby-Power lines were blown down in Shelby.
June 2011HailShelby-Broadcast media relayed a report of golf ball sized hail that fell within the village of Shelby with the passage of the storms.
April 1996HailShelby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
New Era3.5 miles11
Mears5.9 miles11
Hart6.2 miles12
Rothbury7.0 miles11
Ferry7.6 miles11
Stony Lake8.0 miles7
Elbridge9.4 miles11
Little Point Sable9.4 miles6

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 ShelbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7493348The 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 1621579. 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.