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.
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
Giles Gilbert Houselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresStanton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,417 | |
| 2020 | 1,348 | -69 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000070 - 2019 |
| 31 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2019 |
| 27 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000058 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 28 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000040 - 2018 |
| 28 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STANTON COMMUNITY FD 0000043 - 2018 |
| 18 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2019039 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Tornado (F2) | Stanton | $500,000 | A 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $100,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Stanton. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $30,000 | Numerous trees were blown down in Stanton and a roof was blown off of an old barn. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Stanton | $2,000 | A 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $1,000 | Large tree downed in Stanton. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | A few trees were blown down just west of Stanton. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | Trees were blown down in Stanton. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Stanton | - | 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 Stanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2464931 | 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 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.






