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Allendale, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Allendale Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49401. The Survey maps it on the Allendale quadrangle. 27,073 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Allendale within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Allendale grew from 17,579 to 27,073 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
201017,579
202027,073+9,494 (+54%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Allendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
31 August 2019Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLENDON TOWNSHIP FD 19300 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLENDON TOWNSHIP FD 19281 - 2019
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLENDALE TOWNSHIP FD 201271 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000412 - 2018
18 July 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000442 - 2019
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Allendale: 8 producers. 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
C&L Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allendale in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1999HailAllendale$50,0001.5" to 2" diameter hail was observed in Allendale. Wind damage included large limbs that were downed, and screens that were ripped off some homes.
June 2001HailAllendale$10,000no account filed
April 2016HailEast Allendale-A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail near Allendale.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Allendale-A 60 knot measured wind gust was recorded by Grand Valley State University weather station.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAllendale-A 70 mile per hour wind gust was reported in Allendale.
June 1996HailAllendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Pearline1.6 miles10
North Blendon3.0 miles10
Eastmanville3.1 miles13
Rusk3.3 miles11
Lamont3.6 miles13
Bauer4.4 miles10
Grand Valley4.4 miles11
Ottawa Center5.7 miles10

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 AllendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q515596The 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 619993. 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.