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Camden, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Camden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49232. The Survey maps it on the Camden quadrangle. 496 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Camden within Hillsdale County

Population over time

2 figures

Camden fell from 512 to 496 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
2010512
2020496-16 (-3%)

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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Camden between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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 use1

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
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201927 - 2019
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201820 - 2018
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000109 - 2019
18 December 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201905 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCamden$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Camden. 3 houses also had roof damage and a shed and a barn were destroyed.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCamden$5,000Law enforcement reported several large grain bins and barns damaged near Camden.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCamden$5,000Hillsdale County Central Dispatch reported a residence at 13080 South Edon Road was damaged by severe thunderstorm winds. A machine shop, another out-building, and the home received minor damage.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Camden$1,000Law enforcement and emergency management reported a brief F0 tornado touched down 4 miles southeast of Camden and quickly lifted. A storage shed and some trees were damaged.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCamden-Power lines downed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCamden-A tree was blown down in Camden.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCamden-Emergency management reported trees and power lines down east of Camden.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCamden-Numerous trees down throughout town.
February 2017HailCamden-no account filed
May 2007HailCamden-no account filed
July 2003HailCamden-no account filed
July 1999HailCamden-no account filed
June 1998HailCamden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Montgomery3.0 miles11
Austin3.5 miles14
Reading6.0 miles10
Cambria6.9 miles10
Frontier8.4 miles10
Bankers10.6 miles10
Steamburg11.5 miles11
Ransom12.0 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 CamdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319733The 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 622509. 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.