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Standish, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Standish City. It lies in ZIP code area 48658. The Survey maps it on the Standish quadrangle. 1,458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Standish within Arenac County

On record in Standish

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Standish fell from 1,509 to 1,458 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
20101,509
20201,458-51 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Standish between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 06
23 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 04
11 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTERLING AREA FD 1419044 - 2019
16 June 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 05
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Standish: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mk Perlberg Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standish in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStandish$30,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in multiple locations in and just east of Standish. Power lines were also downed in and on the east side of Omer.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindStandish$10,000no account filed
June 2007FloodStandish$6,000Sterling Road was closed between Grove Street and US-23, due to substantial soil erosion in the roadbed. Water also inundated part of US-23 near Foco Road.
July 2010LightningStandish$500Lightning struck near the Arenac County Central Dispatch center. Radios and other equipment were temporarily disabled.
September 2022HailStandish-Half dollar sized hail called in from public source.
August 2001HailStandish-Scattered strong to severe storms developed along a cold front.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStandish-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines countywide.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStandish-The Arenac County Road Commission reported trees and branches blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 1993HailStandish-A spotter reported 0.75-inch hail 2 miles east of Standish.
July 2016HailStandish-no account filed
June 2006HailStandish-no account filed
May 2000HailStandish-no account filed
June 1998HailStandish-no account filed
May 1997HailStandish-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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
Pine River3.7 miles10
Worth4.0 miles10
Saganing4.5 miles10
Sterling4.8 miles10
Whites Beach5.2 miles10
Arenac5.6 miles10
Omer7.1 miles10
Morres Junction7.5 miles10

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 StandishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2089171The 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 638715. 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.