BlockBefore

Wacousta, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Watertown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48822. The Survey maps it on the Wacousta quadrangle. 1,532 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Wacousta within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Wacousta grew from 1,440 to 1,532 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
20101,440
20201,532+92 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wacousta between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 199847 - 2019
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD1933 - 2019
2 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD2026 - 2020
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1825231 - 2018
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 198168 - 2019
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1824967 - 2018
17 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1824826 - 2018
14 March 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD2020 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Wacousta: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wacousta in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003HailWacousta$50,000One and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Wacousta.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindWacousta$15,000Several trees were blown down in Wacousta and Fowler, as reported by area law enforcement.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
South Riley3.1 miles11
Eagle4.9 miles10
Riley6.1 miles11
DeWitt7.0 miles12
East DeWitt8.6 miles12
Westphalia8.7 miles10
Valley Farms8.9 miles12
Clinton Village9.2 miles12

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 WacoustaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16303025The 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 1615648. 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.