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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.

Armada within Macomb County

Population over time

2 figures

Armada 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,730
20201,684-46 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

10 since 2018

Regional 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
21 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 436 - 2020
19 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 349 - 2019
31 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 359 - 2018
24 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 287 - 2019
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 218 - 2018
24 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2018
18 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 202 - 2018
15 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Tornado (EF1)Armada$4,500,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindArmada$405,000no account filed
July 2002LightningArmada$50,000A newspaper reported that a home in Armada Township was struck by lightning and caught on fire.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindArmada$12,000Large limbs were downed in Armada. The damage was worse in Richmond, where trees, power lines, and utility poles were toppled.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindArmada-Trees reported blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindArmada-Large trees reported down, along with roof damage.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindArmada-A couple of trees reported down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindArmada-Large tree limbs were reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindArmada-A large tree was reported blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindArmada-A 8 inch diameter tree limb was reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindArmada-A trained spotter estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindArmada-Several trees were blown down.
August 2006HailArmada-Law enforcement reported penny size hail.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindArmada-A tree was blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindArmada-A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs down.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindArmada-A spotter reported that thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindArmada-Spotters reported 6 inch diameter tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds.
May 2024HailArmada-no account filed
June 2011HailArmada-no account filed
June 2011HailArmada-no account filed
July 2008HailArmada-no account filed
May 2007HailArmada-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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
Wolcott Mills5.7 miles14
Ray Center5.8 miles14
Memphis7.1 miles13
Richmond7.2 miles14
Romeo7.4 miles12
Meade8.7 miles17
Davis8.8 miles17
New Haven9.1 miles17

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 ArmadaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2199016The 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.