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Temperance, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48182. It stands on North River. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville East quadrangle. 9,188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Temperance within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Temperance grew from 8,517 to 9,188 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
20108,517
20209,188+671 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

33 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Temperance between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001898 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 284 - 2018
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000190 - 2019
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001429 - 2019
16 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 214 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Temperance in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindTemperance2 hurt, $5,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindTemperance$65,000NWS storm survey reported a 40 foot by 40 foot roof section blown off the Bedford High School gymnasium. Numerous trees were also blown down in the area. The damage to the roof was so extensive that the entire roof had to be replaced, costing the school approximately $65K.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTemperance$20,000A local newspaper article reported at least 8 utility poles, along M-125 between Sterns and Benore Roads, had snapped in half due to high winds in a thunderstorm. Total damages were estimated at roughly $20K.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTemperance$9,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTemperance$7,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindTemperance$5,000no account filed
September 2011Tornado (EF0)Temperance$3,000A tornado was reported to have struck the Village Meadows Subdivision, causing minor damage to a garage roof and knocking over a wooden play structure.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTemperance$3,000Wires reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTemperance$3,000Law enforcement reported power lines and a tree down in Temperance.
July 2006LightningTemperance$3,000Lightning struck a home under construction, destroying some siding and charring an electrical outlet. Property damage was estimated at roughly $3K.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindTemperance$2,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTemperance-Multiple large trees and wires reported blown down, some of which fell onto houses in Bedford Township.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTemperance-Multiple trees reported blown down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTemperance-A large tree was reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindTemperance-Multiple 3 inch diameter tree branches blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTemperance-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindTemperance-Spotters reported several large trees blown down in thunderstorm winds.
March 2012HailTemperance-no account filed
March 2012HailTemperance-no account filed
June 2011HailTemperance-no account filed
September 2001HailTemperance-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTemperance-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindTemperance-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindTemperance-no account filed
August 1997HailTemperance-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Samaria2.1 miles19
Liberty Corners2.3 miles16
Ottawa2.6 miles19
Lambertville3.3 miles16
Vienna Junction3.9 miles19
Erie4.0 miles18
Yargerville4.5 miles19
Saint Anthony4.8 miles16

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 TemperanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316624The 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 1614669. 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.