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Stephenson, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Stephenson City. It lies in ZIP code area 49887. It stands on Hugos Brook. The Survey maps it on the Stephenson quadrangle. 816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Stephenson within Menominee County

Population over time

2 figures

Stephenson fell from 862 to 816 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
2010862
2020816-46 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Stephenson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Stephenson: 1 producer. 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
Daggett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephenson in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 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 2015HailStephenson$500,000The spotter near Stephenson reported two-inch diameter hail, although most hail stones covering the ground were smaller. The large hail damaged roofs on homes across Stephenson, and the combination of the hail and heavy rainfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour clogged storm sewers and caused flooding of the Stephenson School.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStephenson$20,000Report on Facebook of a tree down on a garage, couple of dead trees down, and small branches on roadways. Picture of downed tree was provided.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindStephenson$5,000Power lines and trees were reported down across the railroad tracks in Menominee. Emergency services were activated for the area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStephenson$5,000Power lines and trees reported down in Lake Township.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindStephenson$1,000A spotter reported a tree down on a power line near the intersection of Division and Willow Streets in Stephenson.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindStephenson$1,000There was a public report of a few trees blown down a couple of large branches snapped off healthy trees near Stephenson.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindStephenson$500Law enforcement reported a tree down across County Road 354 near Highway US-41 in Stephenson.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindStephenson$500Law enforcement reported a large tree down in Stephenson temporarily blocking a portion of a road.
May 2022HailStephenson-There was a report via social media that hail began as marble-sized and increased to half dollar sized in Stephenson.
August 2020HailStephenson-There was a public report of one inch diameter hail at Stephenson. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
September 2019Flash FloodStephenson-The Menominee County Dispatch reported County Road G12 closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall. Additional minor to moderate flooding was also reported on other back county roads. The NWS Marquette radar estimated five to six inches of rainfall in the Stephenson area on the morning of the 19th.
June 2007HailStephenson-Hail lasted for five minutes.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStephenson-Several large trees were knocked down.
July 2003HailStephenson-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2003HailStephenson-Hail an inch and a half in diameter was reported.
July 2002HailStephenson-Penny sized hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStephenson-Several large trees were blown down.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindStephenson-Several trees knocked down by wind.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindStephenson-large trees down

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Ingalls2.7 miles8
Daggett3.3 miles8
Palestine4.0 miles8
Koss5.5 miles8
Kells5.5 miles8
Wallace6.2 miles8
Longrie6.3 miles8
Talbot6.6 miles7

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 StephensonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2189590The 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 638791. 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.