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Twining, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48766. The Survey maps it on the Omer quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Twining within Arenac County

Population over time

2 figures

Twining fell from 181 to 130 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
2010181
2020130-51 (-28%)

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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Twining between 1993 and 2020, burning about 644 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
21 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 05
16 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 0004
8 May 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 02
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Twining: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Arenac Pit-Bessinger Co Rd CommStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cook Brick Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Michigan Gypsum Pit and MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
M.J.Griffin Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer
Mc Donnell Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twining in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTwining$18,000Many trees and power lines were downed in eastern Arenac County.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindTwining$12,000A number of trees were downed, with some damage to agricultural outbuildings.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTwining$4,000Trees were downed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTwining-County dispatch reports numerous downed trees, limbs, and power lines with extensive power outages across the county as a result of damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTwining-Strong thunderstorm winds toppled trees and utility poles across the city.
October 2006HailTwining-no account filed
June 1996HailTwining-no account filed
July 1994HailTwining-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
Turner2.3 miles10
Omer5.2 miles10
Santiago5.7 miles11
Maple Ridge6.7 miles10
Au Gres7.4 miles11
Knights Mill7.6 miles11
Arenac7.9 miles10
Delano9.7 miles11

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 TwiningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2350228The 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 1615287. 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.