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.
Population over time
2 figuresCamden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 512 | |
| 2020 | 496 | -16 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Camden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Camden quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201927 - 2019 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201820 - 2018 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000109 - 2019 |
| 18 December 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201905 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Camden. 3 houses also had roof damage and a shed and a barn were destroyed. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported several large grain bins and barns damaged near Camden. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | $5,000 | Hillsdale 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 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Camden | $1,000 | Law 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | - | Power lines downed. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | - | A tree was blown down in Camden. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down east of Camden. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | - | Numerous trees down throughout town. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Camden | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Camden | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Camden | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Camden | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Camden | - | 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.
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 Camden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319733 | 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 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.





