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Stanton, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stanton City. It lies in ZIP code area 48888. The Survey maps it on the Stanton quadrangle. 1,348 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Stanton within Montcalm County

On record in Stanton

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

Stanton fell from 1,417 to 1,348 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
20101,417
20201,348-69 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stanton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
31 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000070 - 2019
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2019
27 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000058 - 2019
8 May 2006Recreation and ceremony28 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000040 - 2018
28 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000043 - 2018
18 May 1992Arson/incendiarism10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2019039 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montcalm County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanton in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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 1994Tornado (F2)Stanton$500,000A brick, ranch style home in Fairplain Township was totally destroyed by an apparent tornado. No one actually saw a tornado, but the debris pattern and localization of the damage strongly suggested a tornado rather than straight-line thunderstorm winds. Seven people were in the home at the time, but no one was injured. A small shed was also torn up. The path length and width were estimated from the debris pattern. Trees up to 10 inches in diameter were broken off at the ground in a counter-clockwise pattern.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStanton$100,000Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Stanton.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStanton$40,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStanton$30,000Numerous trees were blown down in Stanton and a roof was blown off of an old barn.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStanton$25,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStanton$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindStanton$20,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Stanton$2,000A very weak F0 tornado touched down very briefly in an open field one mile northeast of Stanton in central Montcalm county. Very minor damage was noted to trees on a fence row as the tornado dissipated. The tornado dissipated about ten seconds after forming.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStanton$1,000Large tree downed in Stanton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStanton-A few trees were blown down just west of Stanton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStanton-Trees were blown down in Stanton.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
April 1994HailStanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montcalm 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
Kings Corner3.0 miles10
Sidney4.0 miles11
Westville4.5 miles13
McBride4.7 miles13
Entrican5.5 miles11
Sheridan5.6 miles10
Edmore8.3 miles10
Amsden8.7 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 StantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2464931The 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 638726. 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.