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Vanderbilt, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Corwith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49795. The Survey maps it on the Vanderbilt quadrangle. 498 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Vanderbilt within Otsego County

Population over time

2 figures

Vanderbilt fell from 562 to 498 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
2010562
2020498-64 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Vanderbilt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
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
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 18
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 20
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 16
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 17
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 19
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Vanderbilt: 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
Otsego County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vanderbilt in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 1995Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt$50,000Numerous trees and power lines were brought down by strong thunderstorm winds around Pickerel Lake.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt$35,000Siding was ripped off the post office in Vanderbilt. Numerous trees were downed, one of which heavily damaged a Vanderbilt home.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt$7,000One utility pole and multiple power lines were downed at the Vanderbilt Area School. Multiple trees were downed at the intersection of Grant and Elm Streets.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt$1,000A large tree was downed near Martindale and Pyke School Roads.
May 2022HailVanderbilt-Nickel sized hail in Corwith Twp via Facebook. Time estimated by radar.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt-Numerous trees down, Roof blown off gas station, and exit sign blown over on I-75.
May 2006HailVanderbilt-no account filed
June 2005HailVanderbilt-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt-no account filed
July 1996HailVanderbilt-no account filed
April 1993HailVanderbilt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Green Timbers6.6 miles12
Gaylord8.0 miles14
Sparr8.4 miles12
Pearll City11.2 miles16
Elmira11.7 miles11
Oak Grove11.8 miles16
Eyedylwild Beach12.7 miles16
Arbutus Beach13.6 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 VanderbiltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2611337The 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 1615504. 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.