Armada, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Armada Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48005. It stands on Woodbeck Drain. The Survey maps it on the Armada quadrangle. 1,684 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArmada fell from 1,730 to 1,684 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,730 | |
| 2020 | 1,684 | -46 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Armada quadrangle1:62500
- 1928 USGS Armada quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Armada quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Armada quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Armada quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Armada quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Armada between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 436 - 2020 |
| 19 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 349 - 2019 |
| 31 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 359 - 2018 |
| 24 May 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 287 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 218 - 2018 |
| 24 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2018 |
| 18 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 202 - 2018 |
| 15 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armada in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Armada | $4,500,000 | A tornado touched down just southwest of the city of Armada, around the intersection of 34 mile and Armada Ridge Rd. Initial damage consisted of plentiful tree damage and sporadic roofing damage mainly to shingles. Initial damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado. Tornado then increased in strength to an EF1 tornado on Main St on the west side of Armada. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph. Damage in the city consisted of massive tree damage with uprooted and sheared trees. Several residential homes observed shingle damage, with a couple of houses exhibiting more severe damage to the roofing structure as roofing material was removed from the home. One house lost all roofing, with the upper walls then collapsing. The tornado then tracked northeast towards the school complexes in town, dropping in intensity down to EF0. Damage observed at this point included several uprooted trees and large limbs snapped. The tornado then continued north-northeast towards Omo and Florence Rd, re-strengthening to an EF1, where a residential home lost a large section of roofing. The tornado briefly continued up Omo Rd before lifting. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | $405,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Lightning | Armada | $50,000 | A newspaper reported that a home in Armada Township was struck by lightning and caught on fire. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | $12,000 | Large limbs were downed in Armada. The damage was worse in Richmond, where trees, power lines, and utility poles were toppled. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | Trees reported blown down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | Large trees reported down, along with roof damage. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A couple of trees reported down. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | Large tree limbs were reported down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A large tree was reported blown down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A 8 inch diameter tree limb was reported down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A trained spotter estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Armada | - | Law enforcement reported penny size hail. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A tree was blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs down. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | A spotter reported that thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armada | - | Spotters reported 6 inch diameter tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Armada | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Armada | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Armada | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Armada | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Armada | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolcott Mills | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Ray Center | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Memphis | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Richmond | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Romeo | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Meade | 8.7 miles | 17 | |
| Davis | 8.8 miles | 17 | |
| New Haven | 9.1 miles | 17 |
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 Armada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2199016 | The 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 620222. 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.









